duel
IPA: dˈuʌɫ
noun
- Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
- Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).
- (by extension) Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas.
verb
- To engage in a battle.
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Examples of "duel" in Sentences
- The practicality of the duels is debatable.
- The duel is too strenuous for Zane and he collapses.
- This conflicts with the conventional account of the duel.
- The result of the duel will decide the winner of the war.
- One of the more modern refinements of the blood feud is the duel.
- The duel is organized by the pirates and held on a secluded island.
- The duel is stopped, and the Prince of Kauros is declared the victor.
- The duel is stopped, and the Prince of Kauros is declared to be the victor.
- This break in their friendship paradoxically negates the premise of the duel.
- The duel effects of evaporation and transpiration is called evapotranspiration.