Thesaurus results for MELEE

melee

noun

ˈmā-ˌlā

as in brawl

a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people a verbal disagreement at the football game soon turned into a general melee involving scores of spectators

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Recent Examples of melee Adam Gray / Getty Images Video shows a total melee, with fans fighting, ripping out street signs and banging on cars. —

Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 9 June 2026 In the ensuing melee, Alice also loses track of the line. —

Ben Travers, IndieWire, 8 June 2026 The design leans on physics-heavy melee, spell schools and a handcrafted world of ruins, with build pillars across stealth, agility and sorcery. —

Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 Doors, furniture and the ground floor windows were destroyed in the melee. —

ABC News, 24 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for melee

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brawl

Noun

Cobb lives across the street from where the brawl happened.

— Brittney Ermon, CBS News, 13 June 2026
Like all of the film’s most fist-pumping setpieces, of which there are several, the getaway brawl is a fevered array of different fighting styles that smash into each other like concrete blocks to create something faintly new.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 12 June 2026