Affray

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  • noun. A noisy quarrel or brawl.
  • transitive verb. To frighten.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To frighten; terrify; give a shock to; arouse; disturb.
  • noun. Fear; terror.
  • noun. Disturbance involving terror.
  • noun. A public fight; a noisy quarrel; a brawl; a tumult; disturbance.
  • noun. Synonyms Broil. Scuffle, etc. See quarrel, n.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
  • noun. Alarm; terror; fright.
  • noun. A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray.
  • noun. The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
  • transitive verb. To startle from quiet; to alarm.
  • transitive verb. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
  • noun. A tumultuous assault or quarrel.
  • noun. The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
  • verb. To startle from quiet; to alarm.
  • verb. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a noisy fight
  • noun. noisy quarrel
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    combat  fight  fighting  scrap  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    affright  altercation  begad  brawl  broil  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    alarm  brawl  contest  disturbance  encounter  
    verb-form
    affrayed  affraying  affrays  
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