Synonyms for duel
ˈdu əl, ˈdyu-du·el

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1. duel, affaire d'honneurnoun

   a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor

   Synonyms:
   affaire d'honneur

2. duelverb

   any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)

   Synonyms:
   affaire d'honneur

3. duelverb

   fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman

   "In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters"

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1. duelnoun

   Synonyms:
   affair of honor

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1. duelnoun

   Synonyms:
   monomachia, monomachy

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1. List of paraphrases for "duel":

   showdown, gunfight, shootout, mourning

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1. Lester R Bittel:

   Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.

2. Carl von Clausewitz:

   War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

3. Ewa Brodnicka:

   I did not give up the duel because I did not want to disappoint the fans and the organizers, despite the fact that the last 3 weeks of preparations are fighting pain and crossing my own limits during the rehabilitation of a broken leg.

4. Oscar Wilde:

   my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to death. one or the other has to go.

5. Peter Sokolowski:

   The ability of those spellers was simply greater in aggregate than we prepared for, they were structurally prepared for kind of a duel between two spellers. What they recognized was they didnt have enough words of that very high level, of the most difficult level. ... They were all difficult words, but not the most difficult words. They had already gone through them.