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Meanings of skirmish in English

Portuguese
conflito
Catalan
batussa
Spanish
escaramuza

A minor short-term fight.

        conflito
        Russian
        шармицель
        Portuguese
        escaramuça
        Spanish
        escaramuza
        Catalan
        escaramussa

        Military or paramilitary conflict, attack, fight or shooting that is shorter in scope or duration than a typical battle.

              шармицель
              Usage of skirmish in English
              1
              So far as he is concerned, that is just an opening skirmish.
              The accident man
              2
              Early reports said there was a skirmish and Prince Charles fell awkwardly.
              The Irish Times
              3
              Dennis Skinner sees everything as a skirmish in the great class war.
              The Guardian
              4
              The machine had won the opening skirmish in the railroad regulation controversy.
              Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
              5
              Today we lose as many in a skirmish in the Polish marshes.
              Greenmantle
              6
              Poor Sempland had been captured in an obscure skirmish late in 1861.
              A Little Traitor to the South / A War Time Comedy with a Tragic ...
              7
              At the close of the skirmish which ensued, General Davidson was killed.
              Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical ...
              8
              The demand was insatiable because every skirmish among enemies ended in fire.
              Island beneath the sea
              9
              Regular interval in skirmish line ½ pace = 1 yard per man.
              Military Instructors Manual
              10
              So the Jackson boys had luck with them in their first skirmish.
              Historic Boyhoods
              11
              Haller picked up the reading at the point the skirmish had ended.
              The reversal
              12
              Here is the check, and she began to skirmish in her purse.
              Janice Day at Poketown
              13
              But Patten had won in the initial skirmish with old man Death.
              The Bells of San Juan
              14
              That was a three-day slugfest, made Hope look like a minor skirmish.
              World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
              15
              On they tear again, the whole body pushing on in skirmish-like dispersion.
              The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
              16
              A brisk skirmish ensued, several were killed, and the patrol driven in.
              Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical ...
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