BRAWL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brawl mean? 

• BRAWL (noun)
  The noun BRAWL has 2 senses:

1. an uproarious party

2. a noisy fight in a crowd

  Familiarity information: BRAWL used as a noun is rare.

• BRAWL (verb)
  The verb BRAWL has 1 sense:

1. to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively

  Familiarity information: BRAWL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAWL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An uproarious party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

bash; brawl; do

Hypernyms ("brawl" is a kind of...):

party (an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A noisy fight in a crowd

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

brawl; free-for-all

Hypernyms ("brawl" is a kind of...):

combat; fight; fighting; scrap (the act of fighting; any contest or struggle)

Derivation:

brawl (to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively)

• BRAWL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they brawl    ... he / she / it brawls   
Past simple: brawled   
Past participle: brawled   
-ing form: brawling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

brawl; wrangle

Context example:

The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street

Hypernyms (to "brawl" is one way to...):

altercate; argufy; dispute; quarrel; scrap (have a disagreement over something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue brawl

Derivation:

brawl (a noisy fight in a crowd)

brawler (a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls))

 Context examples 

“No brawling or brabbling, gentles! Take heed to the good name of the house.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A ruffian—a common brawling ruffian—that's what you have become.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would not brawl in the presence of death, but I can assure you that if I were a younger man your monstrous conduct would not pass with impunity.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverberated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A series of disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I would not have you brawl about me.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, my God! how they push and brawl!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Besides,” said John, “the Socman of Minstead is a by-word through the forest, from Bramshaw Hill to Holmesley Walk. He is a drunken, brawling, perilous churl, as you may find to your cost.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)