action, battle royal, close, contest, exchange of blows, give and take, jostle, rassle, scrimmage, strive, wage war
Definitionn. a minor short-term fight
Last update: February 2, 2017
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The two brothers had a skirmish over the disputed land. [Please select]
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They skirmished over the property. [verb]
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The latest skirmish concerns a story in the government flagship daily, the Herald. [Please select]
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The Germans returned it, and effected a lodgment on the beach; and the skirmish died again to silence. [Please select]
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He seems to have confounded coarse caricaturists with refined and thoughtful journalists, even as, in the account of that inshore skirmish, he turns a gun-brig into a British frigate. [Please select]
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[Note: Skirmish at Drumclog. [Please select]
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I always suspected there was a skirmish of cavalry before the main battle of the Harlaw. [Please select]
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There was actually a young cornet of the Life-Guards named Grahame, and probably some relation of Claverhouse, slain in the skirmish of Drumclog. [Please select]
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They were not usually absent when there was a skirmish with the heathen; but, till this moment, they had been seen only in twos or threes about the Serapeum. [Please select]
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They did so, and perceived that there was a skirmish between a party of Cavaliers and some of the Parliamentary cavalry, at about a quarter of a mile distant. [Please select]
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