Crossword clues for brawled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brawl \Brawl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Brawling.] [OE. braulen to quarrel, boast, brallen to cry, make a noise; cf. LG. brallen to brag, MHG. pr?ulen, G. prahlen, F. brailler to cry, shout, Pr. brailar, braillar, W. bragal to vociferate, brag, Armor. bragal to romp, to strut, W. broliaw to brag, brawl boast. ?95.]
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To quarrel noisily and outrageously.
Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife.
--Golden Boke. To complain loudly; to scold.
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To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
Where the brook brawls along the painful road.
--Wordsworth.Syn: To wrangle; squabble; contend.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: brawl)
Usage examples of "brawled".
He was out in the first shy green of spring, when the forests woke and grew clamorous with returning birds, when the rivers brawled with melting ice and a few little white flowers in the moss were like remnant snowflakes.
Mast groaned, sheets ripped hands, combers brawled under rails, and the boat mounted a wave toward the raving sky merely to slide down its trough as if into hell.
Louder brawled the Esali River, hastening through a canyon toward the plain.
Water brawled, foamed, spouted off rocks, filled air with an ongoing cannonade and made the vessel rock and shudder.
Conan was a gigantic barbarian adventurer who roistered and brawled and battled his way across half the prehistoric world to rise at last to the kingship of a mighty realm.
Since that night, nearly half a century before, when as a ragged, wild-eyed youth, whirling a length of broken chain, he had fought his way out of a Hyborian slave pen and set forth barehanded on the road that leads but a chosen few to the ultimate heights of power and glory, Conan of Cimmeria had brawled and battled his way across half a world, cutting a red path through a dozen kingdoms from the thundering beaches of the Western Ocean to the misty vales of fabulous Khitai.