579 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ skˈɜːmɪʃ], [ skˈɜːmɪʃ], [ s_k_ˈɜː_m_ɪ_ʃ]

Similar words for skirmish:

• attack (noun)
• battle (noun)
• brush (noun)
• clash (noun)
• combat (noun)
• confrontation (noun)
• contest (noun)
• encounter (noun)
• engagement (noun)
• face-off (noun)
• fight (noun)
• fistfight (noun)
• melee (noun)
• opposition (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• run-in (noun)
• scrimmage (noun)
• struggle (noun)
• come to blows (verb)
• competition (verb)
• contend (verb)
• disagree (verb)
• fight (verb)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• battle
• contend
• disagree
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for skirmish

Homophones for skirmish

Hyponyms for skirmish

Synonyms for Skirmish:

• n.

  •
  • mission.
  •
  • disagreement,
  • controversy,
  • quarrel,
  • touch,
  • a war of words,
  • argument,
  • dispute,
  • misunderstanding.
  •
  • dicker,
  • haggle,
  • fight it out,
  • cavil,
  • bicker,
  • feud,
  • argue.
  • attack (noun)
  • initiative,
  • dirty deed,
  • muggings,
  • volley.
  • battle (noun)
  • havoc,
  • blitzkreig,
  • Wars,
  • strife,
  • engagement,
  • significant contact.
  • brush (noun)
  • set tos,
  • settos,
  • set-tos.
  • clash (noun)
  • dis harmony,
  • have go each other,
  • dis-harmonies,
  • have go at each other,
  • difference opinion,
  • dis cords,
  • dis-harmony,
  • mis-understandings,
  • dis harmonies,
  • dis-cord,
  • have a go each other,
  • mis understandings,
  • mis understanding,
  • mis-understanding,
  • dis-cords,
  • dis cord.
  • combat (noun)
  • brush offs,
  • shoot outs,
  • brushoffs,
  • brush-offs.
  • confrontation (noun)
  • face-off.
  • contest (noun)
  • de bates,
  • tug of wars,
  • de-bates,
  • de-bate,
  • de bate,
  • tug-of-wars.
  • encounter (noun)
  • velitations.
  • engagement (noun)
  • study at battle.
  • face-off (noun)
  • face off.
  • fight (noun)
  • brawl,
  • rumble,
  • fracas,
  • confrontation,
  • altercation,
  • bout,
  • row,
  • fray,
  • tiff,
  • ruckus.
  • fistfight (noun)
  • fistfight.
  • melee (noun)
  • knock-down-drag-out.
  • opposition (noun)
  • counter-attack,
  • Antinomy,
  • unfriendliness,
  • counter-attacks,
  • negativism,
  • obstructiveness,
  • opposure,
  • Oppugnancy,
  • Antinomies.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • encounter,
  • mixup,
  • contest,
  • clash,
  • shootout,
  • Velitation,
  • have a go at each other,
  • tilt,
  • to do,
  • fight,
  • dogfights,
  • dogfight,
  • opposition,
  • brush-off,
  • sparring match,
  • polarity,
  • run-in,
  • statics,
  • fisticuffs,
  • battle,
  • fighting,
  • shoot-outs,
  • TODO,
  • shootouts,
  • affray,
  • setto,
  • violence,
  • tug-of-war,
  • tourney,
  • combat,
  • wranglings,
  • action,
  • shoot out,
  • brush,
  • tap,
  • tussle,
  • attack,
  • duel,
  • shoot-out,
  • sport,
  • scrap,
  • set-to,
  • melee,
  • brushoff.
  • run-in (noun)
  • bickerings,
  • run in.
  • scrimmage (noun)
  • scrabble,
  • scrabbles.
  • struggle (noun)
  • under taking,
  • under-takings,
  • under-taking.

• v.

  • come to blows (verb)
  • come blows.
  • competition (verb)
  • skirmish.
  • contend (verb)
  • gives got,
  • pushes for,
  • jockeying for position,
  • mixing it up with,
  • give ones got,
  • jockeyed for position,
  • going for it,
  • mixed it with,
  • gave one's all,
  • give ones all,
  • mixed it up with,
  • giving all one's got,
  • has at,
  • giving ones got,
  • makes play for,
  • gave ones all,
  • shooting at,
  • haddest at,
  • knocking oneself out,
  • gives all one's got,
  • with stood,
  • tangled with,
  • gives one's all,
  • mixes it up with,
  • gave one got,
  • giving all one got,
  • pushed for,
  • giving got,
  • gave all one got,
  • mixt with,
  • mixt it with,
  • shooting for,
  • give one's got,
  • give all,
  • gave all ones got,
  • giving all,
  • gave all one's got,
  • with-stands,
  • giving one got,
  • knocks oneself out,
  • mixes it with,
  • gave all got,
  • give all got,
  • tangling with,
  • gives one all,
  • having at,
  • give got,
  • pushing for,
  • made play for,
  • mixes up with,
  • with stands,
  • giving one all,
  • jockeys for position,
  • hadst at,
  • tangles with,
  • went for broke,
  • gave got,
  • giving one's all,
  • with standing,
  • gives all ones got,
  • hath at,
  • giving ones all,
  • give all ones got,
  • with stand,
  • mixing with,
  • with-standing,
  • mixing up with,
  • scrambled for,
  • making play for,
  • knocked oneself out,
  • gives all,
  • going for jugular,
  • gives ones all,
  • mixing it with,
  • scrambling for,
  • gives all one got,
  • goes for broke,
  • gave all,
  • give one got,
  • went for jugular,
  • gives one's got,
  • mixt it up with,
  • mixes with,
  • with-stand,
  • shot for,
  • scrambles for,
  • went after,
  • gives ones got,
  • shoots for,
  • giving one's got,
  • give all one got,
  • give one all,
  • giving all got,
  • gave one all,
  • gave ones got,
  • shoots at,
  • gives all got,
  • gave one's got,
  • mixt up with,
  • gives one got,
  • mix it with,
  • giving all ones got,
  • goes for jugular,
  • hast at.
  • disagree (verb)
  • dis agreed,
  • letting have it,
  • logomachized,
  • dis-sents,
  • went for the jugular,
  • dis cept,
  • discepts,
  • hadst words,
  • dis sent,
  • dis cording,
  • dis-corded,
  • discepting,
  • dis agree,
  • de bated,
  • goes for the jugular,
  • dis-agreed,
  • dis-agree,
  • dis-accord,
  • jumping on,
  • setting to,
  • taking issue,
  • lets have it,
  • hast words,
  • dis-agrees,
  • de-bating,
  • sets to,
  • letted have it,
  • dis sents,
  • dis according,
  • controversialized,
  • discepted,
  • haddest words,
  • dis corded,
  • had words,
  • dis agrees,
  • brings action,
  • going for the jugular,
  • took issue,
  • fell out,
  • brought action,
  • dis-sent,
  • hath words,
  • dis accorded,
  • dis-accords,
  • dis accord,
  • logomachizes,
  • controversializing,
  • dis-cording,
  • controversializes,
  • dis accords,
  • has words,
  • having words,
  • dis-agreeing,
  • de bating,
  • jumps on,
  • dis-accorded,
  • de-bated,
  • lay in to,
  • takes issue,
  • dis agreeing,
  • bringing action,
  • logomachizing,
  • dis-cept,
  • dis-according.
  • fight (verb)
  • grapple,
  • wrestle,
  • wrangle,
  • spar,
  • engage,
  • cross swords.
  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • assault,
  • struggle,
  • conflict.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hostility,
  • attrition,
  • amphibious,
  • reconnaissance,
  • biowarfare,
  • Skirmishing,
  • landing,
  • world war,
  • pitched battle,
  • sortie,
  • asymmetrical warfare,
  • warfare,
  • holocaust,
  • cyberwar,
  • campaign,
  • ambush,
  • civil war,
  • trench warfare,
  • pincer movement,
  • expedition,
  • push,
  • asymmetric warfare,
  • unarmed combat,
  • OP,
  • incursion,
  • war council,
  • air cover,
  • war,
  • staging area,
  • shelling,
  • council of war.
  •
  • maneuver,
  • oppose.
  •
  • withdrawal.
  •
  • movement.
  • battle
  • Warred.
  • contend
  • go for broke,
  • give all one's got,
  • shoot at,
  • go for it,
  • going after,
  • mix up with,
  • give one's all,
  • have at,
  • shoot for,
  • jockey for position,
  • Jostled,
  • going for broke,
  • litigate,
  • mix it up with,
  • mixed with,
  • make play for,
  • shot at,
  • scramble for,
  • go after,
  • mixed up with,
  • had at,
  • mix with,
  • Vied,
  • Emulated,
  • push for,
  • tangle with,
  • knock oneself out,
  • Struggled,
  • goes after,
  • go for jugular.
  • disagree
  • Altercated,
  • Altercating,
  • discorded,
  • bring action,
  • quibble,
  • discording,
  • take issue,
  • altercates,
  • jumped on,
  • Quarrelled,
  • altercate,
  • jump on,
  • Discept,
  • Spatting,
  • go for the jugular,
  • Spatted,
  • let have it,
  • controversialize,
  • set to,
  • have words,
  • logomachize.
  • Other relevant words:
  • scuffle,
  • wage war,
  • dueled,
  • Tiffed,
  • Tiffing,
  • flare up,
  • duelling,
  • jousted,
  • brush with,
  • take up the gauntlet,
  • bandy with,
  • carry on war,
  • take the field,
  • exchange blows,
  • jousting,
  • Dueling,
  • flares up,
  • doing battle,
  • mix it up,
  • waging war,
  • ply weapons,
  • disagree,
  • contend,
  • do battle,
  • come to blows,
  • go to war,
  • take all comers.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • copse,
  • Monomachy,
  • give satisfaction,
  • hot,
  • abrupt,
  • aggression,
  • merciless,
  • clangor,
  • meeting,
  • Tauromachy,
  • stave,
  • brushing,
  • light touch,
  • hurl,
  • catch,
  • argue about,
  • find,
  • joust,
  • tumult,
  • contention,
  • rassle,
  • outbreak,
  • dustup,
  • forceful,
  • noisy,
  • search,
  • battle royal,
  • commotion,
  • Rencontre,
  • dissatisfaction,
  • crash,
  • free-for-all,
  • intense,
  • impetuous,
  • Tilting,
  • turbulence,
  • discuss,
  • intrude,
  • episode,
  • collision,
  • thicket,
  • clash of arms,
  • bovver,
  • randy,
  • heave,
  • heady,
  • fierce,
  • Justle,
  • competition,
  • discord,
  • close,
  • hand-to-hand combat,
  • rough,
  • DO,
  • to-do,
  • bullfight,
  • barbaric,
  • bang,
  • brouhaha,
  • grapple with,
  • jostle,
  • assert,
  • reverberate,
  • box,
  • oppressive,
  • showdown,
  • coppice,
  • scrum,
  • collide,
  • Rencounter,
  • riot,
  • disorder,
  • punch-up,
  • shove,
  • intervene,
  • tournay,
  • incident,
  • scrimmage,
  • dust-up,
  • coming upon,
  • charge,
  • kiss,
  • send,
  • cockfight,
  • blow,
  • armored combat,
  • brusque,
  • mix-up,
  • rough-and-tumble,
  • hurtle,
  • descent,
  • debate,
  • unrest,
  • consult,
  • match,
  • differ,
  • obstruct,
  • Pickeer,
  • resound,
  • tournament,
  • aerial combat,
  • fiery,
  • brushwood,
  • fib,
  • take up arms,
  • rumpus,
  • fence,
  • clangoring,
  • uprising,
  • one-on-one,
  • turmoil,
  • quiver,
  • brandish,
  • ferocious,
  • upset,
  • clang,
  • embroilment,
  • trouble,
  • argue over,
  • scrummage,
  • revolt,
  • strive,
  • contretemps,
  • scene,
  • scramble,
  • scrounge,
  • discover,
  • clank,
  • hassle,
  • rebellion,
  • flashy,
  • boisterous,
  • harsh,
  • friction,
  • fire fight,
  • Hostilities,
  • disturbance,
  • square,
  • clangour,
  • give and take,
  • scrape,
  • brabble,
  • affair,
  • offensive,
  • agitation,
  • broil,
  • donnybrook,
  • list,
  • throw,
  • interfere,
  • inexorable,
  • compete,
  • passage of arms,
  • grim,
  • detect.

Paraphrases for Skirmish:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    clash.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fight.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fighting.

Homophones for Skirmish:

• screening, screaming, Syringa Josikaea, scrawniness, sour mash whiskey, scranch, sayornis, shrewmouse, sorrowing, syringe, sarong, shoring, screw wrench, scoring, scrummage, shirring, Syringa Josikea, souring, schizosaccharomyces, swearing, sour mash, sorriness, square inch, scrounge, syringa, scaramouche, sourness, scrunch, secureness, screwing, serinus, shrink, sureness, scrimmage, s wrench, scraunch, soaring, scaramouch, surmise, sure-enough, serranus, squirming, shrinkage, shearing, shrunk, scouring, scurrying, sugariness, soreness, Saccharum Munja, sharing, syrinx, sermonise, sereness, sermonize, scrimshaw, swaggering, sure enough, saccharomyces, squareness, sour orange.

Hyponym for Skirmish:

• v.

  • competition
    contend, struggle, fight.