scuffle
/ˈskʌfəl/ verb C2- To work the soil surface for weeding, etc. · Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) scarify, cultivate, grub; weed
He/she/it scuffles · Past scuffled · Past participle scuffled · -ing form scuffling
Verb forms
- Base form
- scuffle
- He/she/it
- scuffles
- Past
- scuffled
- Past participle
- scuffled
- -ing form
- scuffling
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All of a sudden Robbers rushed upon them from their hiding-places, and in the scuffle with their owners, wounded with a sword the Mule carrying the treasure, which they greedily seized while taking no notice of the grain.
I heard oaths and the confused sounds of a scuffle.
The Bandar-log howled with triumph and scuffled away to the upper branches where Bagheera dared not follow, shouting: “He has noticed us!
They would sit in circles on the hall of the king’s council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king’s garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
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