Definitions for skirmish

skirmish skir·mish

Spelling: [skur-mish]
IPA: /ˈskɜr mɪʃ/

Skirmish is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in skirmish (hiikmrss).

Definitions for skirmish

noun

  1. Military. a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
  2. any brisk conflict or encounter:

verb (used without object)

  1. to engage in a skirmish.

Origin of skirmish

1300-50; (noun) Middle English skirmysshe Old French eskirmiss-, long stem of eskirmir Germanic (compare Old High German skirman); replacing Middle English scarmouche Old French escaramoucher

Examples for skirmish

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

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

The first skirmish in the renewed battle for gender wage equality seemed to be won by Republicans.

The skirmish lasted about fifteen minutes, the enemy firing from the houses.

Have you forgot the skirmish on the Rhine bank, when you did flash your snapphahn at me?

But after a skirmish or two, what with the roads and what with the enemy, our horses were foundered and useless.

I cut him nigh to the saddle-bow in a skirmish on the eve of Dunbar.

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

Went with Pierre to the summit of skirmish Hill, and took angles.

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

Word Value for skirmish
Scrable

17

Words with friends

17

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