Fight vs. Scuffle — What's the Difference?

Take part in a violent struggle involving the exchange of physical blows or the use of weapons

To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.

Struggle to overcome, eliminate, or prevent

To shuffle.

A violent confrontation or struggle

A rough disorderly struggle at close quarters.

To attempt to harm or gain power over an adversary by blows or with weapons.

A hoe that is designed to work soil by being pushed and pulled. Also called Dutch hoe, scuffle hoe.

(Sports) To engage in a boxing match or other similar contest.

A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.

To engage in a quarrel; argue

(slang) Poverty; struggle.

To strive vigorously and resolutely, as in trying to overcome something; contend

(archaic) A child's pinafore or bib.

To contend with or oppose with violence or in battle.

A Dutch hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling.

To wage or carry on (a battle).

(intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.

To contend for, as by combat

(intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.

(Sports) To take part in a boxing match or other similar contest with (an opponent).

(slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.

To participate in (a boxing match or other similar contest).

To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

To cause (a boxer or other contestant) to fight in a match.

Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.

To contend with or struggle against

A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.

To try to prevent the development or success of

Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.

To try to extinguish (an uncontrolled fire).

A child's pinafore or bib.

To make (one's way) by struggle or striving

A garden hoe.

A confrontation between opposing groups in which each attempts to harm or gain power over the other, as with bodily force or weapons.

Disorderly fighting

A physical conflict between two or more individuals.

A hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling

A boxing match.

An unceremonious and disorganized struggle

A contest in kickboxing, any of the mixed martial arts, or a similar sport.

Walk by dragging one's feet;

A quarrel or conflict

Fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters;

A struggle to achieve an objective

The power or inclination to fight; pugnacity

(intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

(reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.

(intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.

(transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).

(transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.

(transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.

To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.

(intransitive) Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.

An occasion of fighting.

(archaic) A battle between opposing armies.

A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.

(sports) A boxing or martial arts match.

A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.

(uncountable) The will or ability to fight.

(obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships; an arming.

To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; - followed by with or against.

To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.

To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.

To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.

To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.

A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.

A struggle or contest of any kind.

Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.

A screen for the combatants in ships.

The act of fighting; any contest or struggle;

An intense verbal dispute;

A boxing match;

A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;

An aggressive willingness to compete;

Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight;

Fight against or resist strongly;

Make a strenuous or labored effort;

Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for;