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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A noisy quarrel or fight.
  2. n. A loud party.
  3. n. A loud, roaring noise.
  4. v. To quarrel or fight noisily.
  5. v. To flow noisily, as water.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To speak loudly and complainingly or angrily; be clamorous or noisy; quarrel noisily and indecently.
  2. To roar, as water flowing over a pebbly or rocky bed; make a loud babbling noise.
  3. Synonyms To wrangle, squabble, dispute (noisily).
  4. To wrangle about; be noisy or contentious regarding.
  5. To drive away or beat down by noise.
  6. n. A kind of dance; a branle.
  7. n. See braul.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A fight, usually with a huge amount of people involved.
  2. v. To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To quarrel noisily and outrageously.
  2. v. To complain loudly; to scold.
  3. v. To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
  4. n. A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a noisy fight in a crowd
  2. n. an uproarious party
  3. v. to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively

Etymologies

  1. Middle English braul, from braullen, to quarrel.

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  • Kristianto2010 As we follow His right-side-up ways, we discover that turning the other cheek keeps us from getting caught in a brawl, that it is more blessed to give than to receive, and that dying to self is life at its best.
    Jan 26, 2011

‘brawl’ has been looked up 1475 times, added to 29 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 10.