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Meanings of affray in English

Portuguese
contenda
Catalan
contesa
Spanish
altercado

A noisy fight.

contenda
Portuguese
altercação
Catalan
avalot
Spanish
altercado

Noisy quarrel.

altercação
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Examples for "altercation"
Examples for "altercation"
1
He was immediately flattened and another altercation took place among several players.
The Irish Times
2
And so the altercation in the night went on, over the irremediable.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
3
Last year, rapper Kanye West was in an altercation with a photographer.
Reuters
4
He believes this was the result of the altercation with his coworker.
Ebony
5
Then the sound of the altercation overhead smote him too with alarm.
The Coryston Family / A Novel
1
Four Mykonos officers sustained slight injuries in the fracas, the authorities said.
The South African
2
The Spartan frowned; there was no way the fracas would go unnoticed.
The Flood
3
The other had been gouged out years ago in a drunken fracas.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
4
The fop ran behind a tree, to be safe from the fracas.
An Enemy to the King / From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of t...
5
Then there has been a great fracas between the court-martial and Willes.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
Usage of affray in English
1
The Metropolitan Police said he had been arrested on suspicion of affray.
BBC
2
He had interfered in an affray in a cafe and been stabbed.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
3
How the lamentable affray came about could not be explained to me.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
4
He had gone by himself one day some time after the affray.
The secret river
5
In the affray that succeeded, it was said that he was killed.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
6
The ringleaders are expected to be charged with affray and property damage.
Radio NZ
7
His associate fell, and he sprang forward to engage in the affray.
The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army: A Story of the Grea...
8
They had as yet no thought of the consequences of the affray.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
9
Three people -including two teenagers -are facing charges of affray.
The Guardian
10
Sir Percival, for one, had been grievously wounded in the last affray.
In the Court of King Arthur
11
A fight in private is an assault and battery, not an affray.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
12
But I am grieved to hear of your affray with the native.
Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific
13
Without asking for any explanation on the affray, he said to her:
The Son of Clemenceau, A Novel of Modern Love and Life
14
The natives, who had been spectators of the affray, were much perplexed.
The Life of Columbus
15
The monsters roared, and, with their trunks elevated, advanced to the affray.
Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East
16
Asbury, with whom the affray had taken place a short time previous.
Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges
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