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brawl
1. n. A fight, usually with a large number of people involved.
2. v. To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
3. v. To complain loudly; to scold.
4. v. To make a loud confused noise, like the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
5. n. (obsolete) A kind of French dance.

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Example Sentences

This is a football match not a brawl.  An enraged man, who had been accused of looting and was then cleared by the testimony of neighbours, pawed the ground, eager to brawl with his accusers, before he departed the scene.

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