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skirmish

/skur-mish/US // ˈskɜr mɪʃ //UK // (ˈskɜːmɪʃ) //

小冲突,短兵相接,小规模冲突,小规模战斗

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Military. a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
    • : any brisk conflict or encounter: She had a skirmish with her landlord about the rent.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to engage in a skirmish.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounfight

Examples

  • More broadly, however, this skirmish also shows the growing importance of visual disinformation as a political tool.

  • There have been skirmishes in courts across the country in recent years over whether employers can require workers to get a flu shot.

  • Reinoehl shot Danielson near the end of that Saturday of street skirmishes between antifascists and right-wingers.

  • These early skirmishes will determine whether DeFi can live up to its aspirational potential as an alternative, open source financial system.

  • After multiple skirmishes between Apple and developers, regulators have started playing closer attention.

  • And earlier that day, the 43-year-old had earned the précis, breaking up a skirmish by the Staten Island Ferry.

  • As we hear in Mark 15:7, he was apparently an insurrectionist, an anti-Roman revolutionary, and had killed someone in a skirmish.

  • A half-an-hour earlier they had been caught in the middle of a mortar barrage in a skirmish with separatists.

  • That is a high death toll for Hezbollah in a skirmish inside Lebanon on its home territory.

  • The brief skirmish between Hamas and Israel in 2012 also ended with Hamas still in place.

  • As they neared Paris, they heard firing, and became aware a slight skirmish was in progress.

  • He was a mere boy, who, in a rash skirmish with some of our hussars, was wounded severely and taken prisoner.

  • A couple of miles out of the town, in the neighbourhood of La Paz, the entrenched enemy was routed after a slight skirmish.

  • The post-office strike has already shown us what deplorable disasters even a skirmish can bring about.

  • First, though, I'd like to present you a decoration to commemorate your part in this skirmish, Wes.