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BRAWL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A noisy fight in a crowd

Synonyms:

brawl; free-for-all

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("brawl" is a kind of...):

combat; fight; fighting; scrap (the act of fighting; any contest or struggle)

Derivation:

brawl (to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An uproarious party

Synonyms:

bash; brawl; do

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("brawl" is a kind of...):

party (an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively

Example:

The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street

Synonyms:

brawl; wrangle

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "brawl" is one way to...):

altercate; argufy; dispute; quarrel; scrap (have a disagreement over something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue brawl

Derivation:

brawl (a noisy fight in a crowd)

brawler (a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls))

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