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Word: Duel
Speech Type: Verb
late 15th century: from Latin duellum, archaic and literary form of bellum ‘war’, used in medieval Latin with the meaning ‘combat between two persons’, partly influenced by dualis ‘of two’. The original sense was ‘single combat used to decide a judicial dispute’; the sense ‘contest to decide a point of honour’ dates from the early 17th century
ˈdjuːəl
fight a duel or duels
Short Definition:fight duel or duels
Examples:- shall we duel over this?
- duelling had been forbidden for serving officers
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