Brawl

Quick meaning: Brawl is a noun meaning A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

Meaning

A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
2. (intransitive) To create a disturbance; to complain loudly.
3. (intransitive) Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to make a loud, confused noise.
4. (transitive) To pour abuse on; to scold.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake.
6. (dance, obsolete) A type of dance move or step.
7. (dance, music, historical) Alternative form of branle (“dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance”).

Example Sentences

Robert Carlyle appears as Begbie, who starts brawls with almost anyone who crosses his path; [...]

Three Ciuell brawles bred of an airie word, / By the old Capulet and Mountague, / Haue thrice diſturbd the quiet of our ſtreets.

I doe the wrong, and firſt began to braule / The ſecret miſchiefes that I ſet abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: [...]

[U]pon every trifle, the vitiated faculties of thy ſoul are inflamed with immoderate and moſt irregular paſſion, ſo that thou often brawleſt, and art made thereby to roar like a wild bull caught in a thicket: [...]

Word Forms

• brawls
• brawling
• brawled

Synonyms for brawl

Depending on context, synonyms include row, scuffle, squabble, argument, argy-bargy, altercation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wrangle, bash, free-for-all, do, fracas, scuffle.

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