Definitions for duels

duels du·el

Spelling: [doo-uh l, dyoo-]
IPA: /ˈdu əl, ˈdyu-/

Duels is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in duels (delsu).

Definitions for duels

noun

  1. a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
  2. any contest between two persons or parties.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to fight in a duel.

Origin of duels

1585-95; earlier duell Medieval Latin duellum, Latin: earlier form of bellum war, probably maintained and given sense “duel” by association with Latin duo two

Examples for duels

The ledge was covered with fine sand, as if on purpose for a duel.

I remember that during the night preceding the duel I did not sleep a single moment.

It was simply a question of days, this duel as to which should go off first.

It was less of a duel and more of a WWE-styled battle royale.

It was a duel on a larger scale, with all the uncertainty and danger that implied.

Drake has been following the case on behalf of Fahmy, who is duel Canadian-Egyptian national.

The protagonists Bernier and Gautier have a duel that again occupies an adrenaline-defying amount of time.

Meanwhile the duel between the Gneisenau and Inflexible had been going on.

That, then, makes this, for the third year running, duel between Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Amy Poehler.

We not only have no right to endanger another's life by a duel, but we have no right to endanger our own.

Word Value for duels
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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