scuffle
/ˈskʌfəl/ verb C2- To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
- To walk with a shuffling gait.
- To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
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.
He dogs the fellow, he sees him enter a house, he waits outside for him, and in the scuffle he receives his own death-wound.
There he was dogged by his confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the pearl, and he stabbed him in the scuffle which followed.”
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