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Scuffle

To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

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Battle 76% connected

Fertile. See Battel, a.

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Combat 76% connected

To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

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Contend 76% connected

To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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Fight 76% connected

To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fighting 76% connected

of Fight

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Hoe 76% connected

A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scrap 76% connected

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Struggle 76% connected

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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Walk 76% connected

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

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Manner of action 2

Drag 76% connected

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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Scuff 76% connected

The back part of the neck; the scruff.

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Derivationally related 4

Shamble 74% connected

One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Shamble 74% connected

One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Scramble 92% connected

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Shamble 92% connected

One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Shuffle 92% connected

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tussle 92% connected

To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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