SKIRMISHING Synonyms

• attracting or delighting

• the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

• engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

• the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat

• the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

• an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage

• making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer

• engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity

• engaged in war

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• an energetic attempt to achieve something

• an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

• battle or contend against in or as if in a battle

• an engagement fought between two military forces

• the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

• battle or contend against in or as if in a battle

• maintain or assert

• have an argument about something

• to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation

• succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available

• compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

• be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

• a bitter quarrel between two parties

• carry out a feud

• a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances

• joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback

• disorderly fighting

• fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters

• make messy or untidy

• a dense growth of bushes

• an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

• momentary contact

• conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

• a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)

• a minor short-term fight

• the act of brushing your teeth

• the act of brushing your hair

• contact with something dangerous or undesirable

• rub with a brush, or as if with a brush

• touch lightly and briefly

• clean with a brush

• sweep across or over

• remove with or as if with a brush

• cover by brushing

• a loud resonant repeating noise

• a state of conflict between persons

• a state of conflict between colors

• a minor short-term fight

• crash together with violent impact

• be incompatible; be or come into conflict

• disagree violently

• a minor short-term fight

• a casual or unexpected convergence

• a casual meeting with a person or thing

• a hostile disagreement face-to-face

• come together

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• be beset by

• experience as a reaction

• contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle