Synonyms of the word

tussle

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

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.

disarrange

• v. To undo the arrangement of; to disorder; to derange.

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.

muss

• v. (transitive) To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.
• n. A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder).
• n. (obsolete) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them;…
• n. (obsolete) A term of endearment.

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.

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.