What is another word for brawls?

Pronunciation: [bɹˈɔːlz] (IPA)

There are plenty of synonyms for the word "brawls" that you can consider using in your writing. For instance, you can use the term "altercations" to describe physical confrontations between individuals or groups of people. Similarly, you can use "fights" to denote a physical altercation in which individuals are engaged in a struggle to overpower each other. Additionally, "scuffles" can be used to describe a minor physical altercation that is usually short-lived and less intense than a brawl. "Clashes" can be used to describe conflicts or disagreements between individuals or groups that eventually escalate into physical altercations. Finally, "melees" can be used to describe chaotic and violent confrontations that involve many people.

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Usage examples for Brawls

It was the poor child, racked by pain, whose nerves were rasped by the brawls and the crying babies, the oaths and foul language, and sometimes a fight that seemed in her very window.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas
They were crowded in among the poor and ignorant, where brawls and oaths, drinking and cruelty, were daily food.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas
The land was poor, the people rude, yet it had preserved its pride and loyalty un stained through a thousand murderous brawls.
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann

Famous quotes with Brawls

  • Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.
    Marcus Annaeus Lucan
  • Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.
    Victoria Pratt
  • When I was younger I used to go out looking for squalid brawls in the streets of Newpest. This got a couple of people stabbed, neither of them me, and led in turn to my apprenticeship in one of the Harlan’s World gangs, Newpest chapter. Later on I upgraded this kind of retreat by joining the military: brawling with a purpose, and with more extensive weaponry, but as it turned out, just as squalid. I don’t suppose I should have been as surprised as I was—the only thing the Marine Corps recruiter had really wanted to know was how many fights I had won.
    Richard Morgan
  • Nay, if there's room for poets in the world A little overgrown, (I think there is) Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's, — this live, throbbing age, That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • From ancient drains and sewers of the language (maritime inns and brothels…), from scrawls in the catacombs…whoremasters’ chapbooks…the vocabulary of tavern brawls
    Anthony Burgess

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