skirmish
/ˈskɝmɪʃ/ verb C2- To engage in a minor battle or dispute.
He/she/it skirmishes · Past skirmished · Past participle skirmished · -ing form skirmishing
Verb forms
- Base form
- skirmish
- He/she/it
- skirmishes
- Past
- skirmished
- Past participle
- skirmished
- -ing form
- skirmishing
From the library
Then, compelled to quit Rome, he went and got himself obscurely killed in a night skirmish, scarcely noticed in history.
There they had a bit of a skirmish in getting rid of the duties; the excise was, in truth, the everlasting enemy of the patron of La Jeune Amélie.
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