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301. Brawl - IELTS Verbs and Nouns - IELTS Vocabulary

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 10. 11.
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Brawl : (특히 공공장소에서의 시끄럽고, 소란스럽고, 통제가 안되는) 싸움, 소동, 싸움하다, 소동을 벌이다

 

A brawl is a fight, a rough and uncontrolled fight that is noisy

particularly, a drunken brawl, a pop brawl

a bar room brawl

there were two young men brawling with the bouncers at the club

to fight with someone, a rough uncontrolled, noisy fight

does this not necessarily involves violence, but it normally invovles people kicking, punching and hitting each other

drunkien people shouting and kicking and punching each other

a quarrel

it's disorderly, it's violent and it's a fight

a scuffle

a row

a fight there are more than two people or lots people involved

the proverbial fight in the cowboy film

the spectators at the football match were brawling with each other 

the brawl is what you expect to see on the high street on a saturday night

Formality : 5

 

 

 

in poetry, this is used to describe water going down a stream

to flow noisily 

the flood water brawled past the bridge

the water brawled under the bridge

you can use it this way but that's very literary

Formality : 7.5

 

 

 

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