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Noun scuffle has 3 senses
- hassle, scuffle, tussle, dogfingt, rough-and-tumble - disorderly fighting
--1 is a kind of fight, fighting, combat, scrap
- scuffle, scuffle hoe, Dutch hoe - a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
--2 is a kind of hoe
- scramble, scuffle - an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
--3 is a kind of struggle, battle
Verb scuffle has 2 senses
- shuffle, scuffle, shamble - walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
--1 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
The children scuffle to the playground
- scuffle, tussle - fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters; "the drunken men started to scuffle"
--2 is one way to fight, struggle
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