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Meaning skirmish meaning

What does skirmish mean?
Definitions in simple English

skirmish Noun

— A skirmish is a small fight.

skirmish Verb

— If two sides skirmish, they fight briefly.

skirmish

— noun (= brush) a minor short-term fight — verb engage in a skirmish

Synonyms skirmish synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as skirmish?

skirmish English » English

fight scuffle encounter clash conflict brush battle combat squabble scrimmage quarrel attempt strife spat scrap run-in ruffle prefinals melee fray exchange of fire exchange fire brawl war struggle scout round rumpus rencontre prefinal incident grapple with grapple free-for-all fire face-off exchange of words engagement dispute discord contest confrontation brief argument brabble bicker affray

Topics skirmish topics

What do people use skirmish to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict

Fight
Social behavior Conflict

War

Conjugation skirmish conjugation

How do you conjugate skirmish?

skirmish · verb

Examples skirmish examples

How do I use skirmish in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He was involved in a skirmish with a violent gang.

Movie subtitles

This is not just another border skirmish. We're not equipped for a situation like this.
I'll skirmish around with the Pawnees for a few miles.
When I got to the Sullivan place, there had already been a skirmish.
Si, senora. A little, what you call, skirmish with the Apaches last night.
A brief skirmish, and you'll be lunching at the Savoy again.
Talked about a brief skirmish.
Order a skirmish.
After the first skirmish, our secret, will no longer be secret.
We cornered them after a four-day chase and in a brief skirmish, we closed the chapter on Tarawa.
I'll fix this to read that you made your way back. after becoming separated during the skirmish.
Skirmish over.
We were engaged in a skirmish with some goats.
My husband was killed a year ago. in a border skirmish near the Sheikh Hussein bridge.
He loves a skirmish.
I would remind you that there is still a minor skirmish here in the Pacific.
You're supposed to be doing a skirmish, not dancing a polka.
I'll make it read that you made your way back after getting separated in the skirmish.
What is the price of victory in this skirmish?
Form a skirmish line to the left!
Form a skirmish line to the left! Ho!
Take up a skirmish line at the foot of the bluff.
We're going into the swamps and form a skirmish line 5 feet apart.
Lesko continues to make progress, deciphering the ant language from the tapes recorded during the first skirmish.
One day, in a skirmish with some American troops, Eiko was nearly killed.
A little, what you call, skirmish with the Apaches last night.
That little skirmish just cost them four.
I'll fix this to read that you made your way back after becoming separated during the skirmish.
Barry's first taste of battle was only a skirmish against a rearguard of Frenchmen who occupied an orchard beside a road down which the English main force wished to pass.
A short skirmish.
Call it a. light cavalry skirmish.
We're gonna spread out in a skirmish line.
And there was no skirmish Preceding your act of violence?
The governor was killed outright in a skirmish on the coast. Then they overran the fort and plundered everything.
A skirmish has broken out between student protesters and riot police assigned as security.
My knights will skirmish.

News and current affairs

Just before the naval skirmish broke out, the Bush administration sent Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly to Pyongyang to probe North Korea on missile and nuclear weapon proliferation and conventional forces.
There was only a skirmish over the Dadu River.

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