dueling
Meaning of dueling
- fight a duel or duels.
shall we duel over this?
duelling had been forbidden for serving officers
late 15th century: from Latin duellum, archaic and literary form of bellum ‘war’, used in medieval Latin with the meaning ‘combat between two persons’, partly influenced by dualis ‘of two’. The original sense was ‘single combat used to decide a judicial dispute’; the sense ‘contest to decide a point of honour’ dates from the early 17th century.
Information about dueling
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of dueling is: duelings.
- Languages in which dueling is used:
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Hyphenation of dueling
du-el-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
- dueling is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
dueling synonyms
Meaning take part in a violent struggle involving the exchange of physical blows or the use of weapons:
Meaning meet and come into violent conflict:
Meaning struggle tenaciously to achieve or resist something:
Meaning take action to reduce or prevent (something bad or undesirable):
Meaning struggle to surmount (a difficulty):
Anagrams of dueling
Words that rhyme with dueling
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