scuffle

scuffle is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.
2. intransitive verb. Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.
3. noun. A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.
4. noun. Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.
5. noun. A child's pinafore or bib.
6. noun. A garden hoe.
7. noun. an unceremonious and disorganized struggle

   Synonyms: scramble

8. noun. disorderly fighting

   Synonyms: dogfight, hassle, tussle

9. noun. a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
10. verb. fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters

    "the drunken men started to scuffle"

    Synonyms: tussle

11. verb. walk by dragging one's feet

    "he shuffled out of the room"

    "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"

    Synonyms: shamble, shuffle

Synonyms

scramble, dogfight, hassle, tussle, shamble, shuffle

Common word forms

scuffled, scuffler, scuffles, scuffling

Words from these letters

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