Brawl
Brawl noun - An often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions.
Usage example: the student drama society's decision to put on the controversial play prompted a brawl at the school board meeting
Debate and brawl are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Debate" instead the word "Brawl" as a noun or a verb.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| close | close brawl | close debate |
| full | full brawl | full debate |
| brief | brief brawl | brief debate |
| public | public brawl | public debate |
| Other adjectives: friendly, open, actual, entire, real, massive, big, great, huge, little, infamous, general, final, last, verbal. | ||
Common collocations
| way | brawl way | debate way |
Both words in one sentence
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No, Except Yes: One clip of an interview with Oswald about three months before the events in Dallasnote He was arrested in New Orleans for a brawl with a gang of anti-Castro Cuban militants and somehow got into a television debate as a result.
Source: Film / JFK -
He had been caught up in the Bar Brawl caused by a philosophical debate between a Gnostic, a Zoroastrian, a Christian, and a bearded woman named Rebecca.
Source: Just For Fun / Anaprotestantism -
Blood on the Debate Floor: In A Ceremony of Losses, the Parliament Andoria finally boils over and its members start fighting in a mass brawl.
Source: Literature / Star Trek: The Fall
Cite this Source
Debate and Brawl. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/brawl/debate
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