Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

contend

• v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
• v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
• v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

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.

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.

hoe

• n. An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end,…
• n. The horned or piked dogfish.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
• v. (transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
• n. (US, slang) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
• v. (US, slang) Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).
• n. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

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.

scramble

• interj. (Britain) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that…
• v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
• v. (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
• v. (transitive) To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
• v. (transitive, military) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to…
• v. (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
• v. (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
• v. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize…
• n. A rush or hurry.
• n. (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
• n. A motocross race.
• n. Any frantic period of 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.

shamble

• v. To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
• n. (mining) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively…

shuffle

• n. The act of shuffling cards.
• n. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
• n. (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with…
• n. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
• v. To put in a random order.
• v. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
• v. To change; modify the order of something.
• v. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
• v. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
• v. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
• v. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

struggle

• n. Strife, contention, great effort.
• v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
• v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

tussle

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

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.