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Another word for melee

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melee

n.

scuffle, rumpus, skirmish; see fight 1.

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Another word for melee

also mÃªlÃ©e noun

A quarrel, fight, or disturbance marked by very noisy, disorderly, and often violent behavior:

affray, brawl, broil², donnybrook, fray, free-for-all, riot, row², ruction, tumult. (Informal) fracas. (Slang) rumble. See attack

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The man inches from her fired into the melee, along with the laser guns of several more.
He caught a glimpse of Rissa through the melee and wrestled the horse for control.
At first he speaks with complacence of a melee, and reports that he and his men "agreed to charge" the enemy.
Eventually, and long after the imperial army had begun its retreat, the gallant schiltron was ridden down and annihilated by a charge of three thousand men-at-arms. Reginald was taken prisoner in the melee; and the prisoners also included two other counts, Ferdinand and William Longsword, twenty-five barons and over a hundred knights.
Here Douglas fell in the thickest of the melee, but his death was concealed and Henry Percy, with many other English knights, were captured and held to heavy ransom (r5th of August 1388).

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