duke it out

VERB

fight with

Synonyms

WEAK

battle bump heads cross swords with do battle fight fight it out fight to the finish give no quarter lock horns mix it up with struggle with tangle with wrestle with

Example Sentences

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“If anyone expected the two of them to duke it out in Wright’s much-maligned rotunda,” Huxtable writes, they’d be shocked to discover the two Franks waltzing harmoniously instead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Canada and United States have been the two best teams in the men's ice hockey competition, and they will duke it out at Milano Santagiulia Arena on Sunday at 13.10 GMT.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

"Instead of outguessing the market, let me make all these thousands or millions of people who are investing work for me. I’m just going to sit back and let them duke it out," Booth says.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025

Come Labor Day weekend, the venue plays host to the annual Continental Surf Cup, where the best river surfers from Team USA and Team Europe duke it out for wave supremacy.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2023

“Maybe I’ll run in to you off-world sometime. We can duke it out then.”

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline