[
UK
/djˈuːəl/
]
[ US /ˈduəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈduəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
- any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)
VERB
-
fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman
In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters
How To Use duel In A Sentence
- This naturally resulted in a magical duel, which Crowley eventually won.
- Aaron Burr are largely reduced to an amusing but pointless conversation with four gigantic hoodlums from Baltimore who are asked to interpret the word "despicable," which triggered the Burr-Hamilton duel. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- The spot kick was a duel between the two best players on the pitch. Times, Sunday Times
- A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman.
- Men also met there to fight duels. HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
- He is imprisoned for a year for having acted as Castlewood's second in the duel, for which Lady Castlewood bitterly reproaches him, and on his release joins the army and fights in the war of the Spanish Succession.
- An outcry has been raised against the duello, when the fact is that the duello is simply the unit of war.
- The binomial designates a duel made up of two individuated forces which intersect.
- Twenty bidders dueled for that 8-foot-long scene, and a private American buyer won it. The Art Market Snaps Back
- At the same time, Gaon, the Israeli playwright, attempted to use his version as a way of providing the audience with a more balanced view -- the duel of the Palestinian and Israeli narratives, if you will, which goes back to 1948 and Israel's War of Independence and the Palestinians' Nakba Disaster That may explain why Gaon has been criticized by both Palestinians and Israelis. Leon T. Hadar: Return to Haifa: Whose Narrative Is It Anyway?