Melee
[me'lei]
Definition
(n.) A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.
Typist: Penelope
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Fight (of combatants confusedly mixed), affray, contest, row, fray, broil, brawl, RUMPUS.
Typed by Gordon
Examples
- Turning, I saw a dozen black pirates dashing toward us from the melee. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I shall tilt to-morrow answered Athelstane, in the 'melee'; it is not worth while for me to arm myself to-day. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The love of battle is the food upon which we live--the dust of the 'melee' is the breath of our nostrils! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the melee that ensued they succeeded in burning one of the trains, but not in getting anything from it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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