brawled; brawling; brawls
1
: to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle
soccer fans brawling in the streets
2
: to make a loud confused noise
the Miami river … brawled over 25 feet of rapids—
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brawler
noun
1
: a noisy quarrel or fight
a brawl broke out among the fans
a barroom brawl
2
: a loud tumultuous noise
the spring run became quite a trout brook and its tiny murmur a loud brawl—John Burroughs
John BurroughsExamples of brawl in a Sentence
Verb
Fans were brawling in the streets after the game.
the Wilsons were always loudly brawling, and the neighbors were always shutting their windows
Noun
they were thrown out of the party after starting a brawl
the student drama society's decision to put on the controversial play prompted a brawl at the school board meeting
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Hunter Ingram, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Members of the rock band Jane’s Addiction were brawling at their concert in Boston on Friday night.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2024
David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
Connor McDavid scored at 8:18 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States on Thursday night as the North American rivals turned what had been a tuneup for the 2026 Olympics into a geopolitical brawl over anthems and annexation as much as international hockey supremacy.
—Jimmy Golen, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Cut to the two men brawling in the bowels of a derelict ship in the Miami port, where Spencer has imprisoned and ultimately attempts to drown his son to evade capture.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Members of the rock band Jane’s Addiction were brawling at their concert in Boston on Friday night.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2024
Noun
As Carbon Nation bounced from Hawaii to California and then to Las Vegas in 2020, the ideological messages once so prominent in their videos were increasingly buried beneath a surreal, debauched montage: members slapping each other, a brawl on the beach between Bishop’s wives.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
Connor McDavid scored at 8:18 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States on Thursday night as the North American rivals turned what had been a tuneup for the 2026 Olympics into a geopolitical brawl over anthems and annexation as much as international hockey supremacy.
—Jimmy Golen, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Brawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brawl. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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