Brawl Definition

brôl
brawled, brawling, brawls
noun
brawls
A rough, noisy quarrel or fight; row.
Webster's New World
A noisy, drunken party.
Webster's New World

A fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

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verb
brawled, brawling, brawls
To quarrel or fight noisily.
Webster's New World
To flow noisily over rapids, falls, etc.
Webster's New World

To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.

Wiktionary
To complain loudly; to scold.
Wiktionary
To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
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Other Word Forms of Brawl

Noun

Singular:
brawl
Plural:
brawls

Origin of Brawl

  • Middle English braule, brall "brawl, squabble" from braulen, brallen "to clamour, boast, quarrel". Compare Middle High German prālen "to boast, flaunt" (German prahlen "to vaunt, boast, flaunt"), Low German brallen "to brag", Dutch brallen "to boast", Danish bralle "chatter, jabber".

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English braul from braullen to quarrel

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Brawl Sentence Examples

  • With magic or without, he'd won every brawl he'd ever been in, and he definitely wasn't afraid to fight a girl.

  • It is true, however, that he was stabbed, like Marlowe, in a midnight brawl at a tavern.

  • A full scale drunken brawl was in progress, no doubt.

  • Brawl remains one of the most popular fighting games on the Wii today.

  • He was trained, partly at Paris, for the profession of architect, but his opportune assistance to two German nobles in a tavern brawl obtained for him a nomination to the military school of Munich.

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