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synonyms for come to blows

  • assault
  • attack
  • battle
  • bear arms
  • box
  • brawl
  • challenge
  • clash
  • cross swords
  • dispute
  • do battle
  • duel
  • exchange blows
  • feud
  • fight
  • joust
  • mix it up
  • ply weapons
  • quarrel
  • scrap
  • scuffle
  • skirmish
  • wage war
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to come to blows, such as: assault, attack, battle, bear arms, box, and brawl.

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How to use come to blows in a sentence

In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
SENSE OF OBLIGATIONHENRY MAXWELL DEMPSEY (AKA HARRY HARRISON)
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMES
Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
Under so many savage blows, the labouring mountains brought forth Turks.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETT
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO COME TO BLOWS

  • battle
  • bicker
  • caterwaul
  • come to blows
  • fall out
  • have shouting match
  • have words
  • quarrel
  • row
  • spat
  • squabble
  • tiff
  • wrangle
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.