Scuffle and War

Scuffle

Scuffle verb - To seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery.

Usage example: the burglar and the homeowner briefly scuffled together in the dark

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War and scuffle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "War" instead the word "Scuffle" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: scuffled, scuffling

War verb - Make or wage war.

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Scuffle and war are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Scuffle" instead the word "War" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: warship, wartime

good	good scuffle	good war
brief	brief scuffle	brief war
short	short scuffle	short war
following	following scuffle	following war
Other adjectives: small, violent, huge, little, vicious, major, bloody, last, previous, resulting, ensuing.

U.S. Confederate soldier Calvin Crozier, who was headed back to his home in Texas at the end of the war, got into a scuffle with some aggressive Union soldiers in the town of Newberry, South Carolina.

Source: Heroic Sacrifice / Real Life
Psmith's attitude towards any brand of fight (from a scuffle among schoolboys to a full-blown Mob War) in the Psmith series.

Source: Dissonant Serenity
Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: Aside from the primitive aliens that humanity keeps under its thumb, aliens in the GI Wverse are apparently almost godlike beings that consider the Great War to be nothing more than two ant colonies having a scuffle.

Source: Roleplay / Great Interstellar War

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