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battle royal

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battle royal
n. pl. battles royal
1. An intense altercation.
2. A battle involving many combatants.
3. A fight to the finish.
[battle + royal, grand in scale.]
battle royal
n
1. a fight, esp with fists or cudgels, involving more than two combatants; melee
2. a long violent argument
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.battle royalbattle royal - a noisy riotous fight                
melee, scrimmage
disturbance - the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
Translations
battle royal n (fig) (quarrel) → violenta discussione f
battle royal n (fig) (quarrel) → violenta discussione f


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There ensued a battle royal which for sustained and frightful ferocity transcends the power of imagination or description.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Not with the smouldering, smothering, choking hysteria that still worked in the fox-terriers did he listen, nor with quivering of muscles and jumps of over-wrought nerves, but coolly, composedly, as if no battle royal had just taken place and no rips of teeth and kicks of feet still burned and ached his body.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
When the ladies of Gaunt House were at breakfast that morning, Lord Steyne (who took his chocolate in private and seldom disturbed the females of his household, or saw them except upon public days, or when they crossed each other in the hall, or when from his pit-box at the opera he surveyed them in their box on the grand tier) his lordship, we say, appeared among the ladies and the children who were assembled over the tea and toast, and a battle royal ensued apropos of Rebecca.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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