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brawling

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brawl  (brôl)
n.
1. A noisy quarrel or fight.
2. A loud party.
3. A loud, roaring noise.
intr.v. brawled, brawl·ing, brawls
1. To quarrel or fight noisily.
2. To flow noisily, as water.
[Middle English braul, from braullen, to quarrel.]
brawler n.
brawling·ly adv.
Synonyms: brawl, broil2, donnybrook, fracas, fray1, free-for-all, melee, row3
These nouns denote a noisy, disorderly, and often violent quarrel or fight: a barroom brawl; a broil between the opposing teams; a vicious legal donnybrook; a fracas among prison inmates; eager for the fray; a free-for-all in the schoolyard; police plunging into the melee; an angry domestic row.
Translations
brawling [ˈbrɔːlɪŋ]
A. ADJ → pendenciero, alborotador
B. N → peleas fpl, alboroto m
brawling [ˈbrɔːlɪŋ] n → bagarre f
brawling
n → Schlägereien pl


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Some two hundred feet below, a brawling upland stream stood for the moat, and for the enemy there was on the opposite side of the valley a great green company of trees, settled like a cloud slope upon slope, making all haste to cross the river and ascend the heights where I stood.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
Utterance have I become altogether, and the brawling of a brook from high rocks: downward into the valleys will I hurl my speech.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
In short, sir, I swear to you that I will have you arrested, and marched out of the place, to prevent any further brawling on your part.
The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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