Word Finder - affray

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The act of suddenly disturbing anyone; an assault or attack.

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A tumultuous assault or quarrel.

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The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.

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The affray in the busy marketplace caused great terror and disorder.

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Terror.

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To startle from quiet; to alarm.

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To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.

He was present in person at an extraordinary affray in Sidney St., Mile End Road, on Jan.

He received a three and a half year jail term for violent affray.

Snoop and crew were accused of "violent disorder and affray", which included allegedly vandalizing a duty-free shop.

Cohen faced a similar dilemma when his father, Peter, died tragically following an affray in the nightclub he ran in Northampton.

Mr. Short, who is Harris's partner, and a police officer, had a shooting affray.

Offenses included affray, possession of drugs and theft.

Jonathan Woodgate was found not guilty of GBH but convicted of making an affray and given 100 hours of community service.

A desperate affray took place, in which several of the officers were wounded, some most seriously.

Smith's ' and went to prison along with us for an alleged affray, was of a different class.

An affray charge usually means that all parties, injured or not, to the disturbance are charged with causing the affray charge usually means that all parties, injured or not, to the disturbance are charged with causing the affray.

Brown & Hedges ran into street affray - had to take cover in a canal.

An onset was made upon some of the Turkish trenches in the Helles area, which led to sharp fighting; the object was to prevent the Turks transferring troops northwards, and it probably served its purpose; apart from that, little was accomplished although the affray went on intermittently for a week.

Before the arrival of these troops Harfln had met his death at the hands of an assassin, or else in an affray, and his uncle Shaibgn, who was placed on the throne, found himself without the means to collect an army fit to grapple with the invaders.

The two Nuneaton men arrested following the football match on suspicion of causing affray were released on police bail pending further enquiries.

The beginnings of this rupture, as well as a sharp affray between his volunteers and the townsfolk of Ajaccio, may have quickened Bonaparte's resolve to return to France in May 1792, but there were also personal and family reasons for this step. Having again exceeded his time of furlough, he was liable to the severe penalties attaching to a deserter and an émigré but he saw that the circumstances of the time would help to enforce the appeal for reinstatement which he resolved to make at Paris.

At this time Job Charnock was the chief of the Bengal council, and, owing to an affray with the Mogul troops at Hugli on the 28th of October 1686, he embarked the company's goods and servants on board light vessels and dropped down the on the 31st of December 1600, and the first expedition of four ships under James Lancaster left Torbay towards the end of April 1601, and reached Achin in Sumatra on the 5th of June 16.02, returning with a cargo of spices.