Dogfight
Dogfight noun - An earnest effort for superiority or victory over another.
Usage example: the playful competition over who would get the new office turned into a real dogfight
Match and dogfight are semantically related in fight topic. In some cases you can use "Match" instead a noun "Dogfight", when it comes to topics like physical encounter.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Getting roadkill/pancake fifteen times in a match equals a "Road Rampage", ten of which bestow the "Armadillo" award, and killing a player in an aerial dogfight makes you a "Top Gun", twenty of which bestow the "Ace" award.
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Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon has you saving those Two Guys from Adromeda, and after breaking them out of Prison, fighting a Death Match with gigantic Rockem Sockem Robots, AND fighting a space dogfight, they complain about the lack of light speed and in flight entertainment.
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Match and Dogfight. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dogfight/match
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Match or Dogfight. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dogfight/match.
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