Synonyms of the word

dogfight

• n. A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.
• n. A fight between dogs.
• v. To engage in a battle between fighter planes.

arrange

• v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
• v. To put in order, to organize.
• v. To plan; to prepare in advance.
• v. (music) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original…

battle

• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To nourish; feed.
• v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To render (for example soil) fertile…
• n. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an…
• n. A struggle; a contest.
• n. (now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
• n. (obsolete) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
• v. (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight.
• v. (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.

combat

• n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
• v. (transitive) To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

competition

• n. (uncountable) The action of competing.
• n. (countable) A contest for a prize or award.
• n. (uncountable, collectively) The competitors in such a contest.

conflict

• n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
• n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
• v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
• v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

contest

• n. (uncountable) Controversy; debate.
• n. (uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.
• n. (countable) A competition.
• v. (intransitive) To contend.
• v. (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
• v. (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
• v. (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course…

engagement

• n. (countable) an appointment, especially to speak or perform.
• n. (uncountable) connection or attachment.
• n. (uncountable, by extension, about human emotional state) the feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected…
• n. (countable, uncountable) the period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
• n. (countable, uncountable) In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
• n. (fencing, countable) the point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective…

fight

• v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight.
• n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

fighting

• v. present participle of fight.
• adj. Engaged in war or other conflict.
• adj. Apt to provoke a fight.
• n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.

hassle

• n. Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
• n. A fight or argument.
• n. An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
• v. To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
• v. To pick a fight or start an argument.

rough-and-tumble

• adj. active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm.
• adj. highly competitive.
• n. Rough activity; fights.
• n. An environment of rough activity.
• n. A person who characteristically engages in such activity.
• v. Engage in rough-and-tumble activity.

scrap

• n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
• n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
• n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
• n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
• n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
• v. (transitive) To discard.
• v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
• v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
• n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
• v. to fight.

scuffle

• n. A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
• n. (archaic) A child's pinafore or bib.
• v. (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
• v. (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
• v. (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
• n. A Dutch hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling.

stage

• n. A phase.
• n. A platform, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
• n. A floor or storey of a house.
• n. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
• n. A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
• n. A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
• n. (dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
• n. (dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked…
• n. (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
• n. The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
• n. (video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
• n. A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
• n. (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
• v. To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
• v. To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
• v. (Of a protest or strike etc.) To carry out.
• v. To place in position to prepare for use.

tussle

• n. A physical fight or struggle.
• n. A conflict, an argument, a disagreement.
• v. To have a tussle.