MEASURE SWORDS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Measure Swords (To). To fight a duel with swords. In such cases the seconds measure the swords to see that both are of one length. "So we measured swords and parted."- Shakespeare: As You Like It, v. 4. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: MEASURE SWORDS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Contention	Join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms; (warfare).
Warfare	Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Expressions: MEASURE SWORDS

Modern Translation: MEASURE SWORDS

Language		Translations for "MEASURE SWORDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mat forcat (measure one's strength, measure swords with), luftoj me shpat (measure swords with). (various references)

Bulgarian		кръстосваме шпаги с (measure swords with), премервам силите си с (measure swords with, take on). (various references)

Hungarian		összeméri kardját valakivel (measure swords with smb.). (various references)

Pig Latin		easuremay ordssway

Portuguese		duelar com espadas. (various references)

Romanian		a-şi mãsura puterile (cross swords). (various references)

Russian		помериться силами с (measure swords with). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ukrstiti mačeve (measure swords with smb.). (various references)

Spanish		cruzar las espadas. (various references)

Turkish		kılıçla çarpışmak, boy ölçüşmek (challenge, compete with, vie). (various references)

Ukrainian		схрестити шпаги, вступати в боротьбу. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: MEASURE SWORDS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-m-o-r-r-s-s-s-u-w"
	-3 letters: wardresses.
	-4 letters: dewormers, measurers, murderess, rearmouse, rearoused, rearouses, reassumed, reassumes, reassured, reassures, seadromes, wormseeds.
	-5 letters: armoured, arousers, assumers, assureds, assurers, assurors, dewormer, dreamers, dressers, droseras, duresses, eardrums, earworms, erasures, marrowed, masseurs, masseuse, measured, measurer, measures, morasses, rearouse, reassume, reassure, redreams, redwares, remorses, resumers, rewarmed, seadrome, smearers, swarmers, swearers, wardress, wormseed.
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Specialty Definition: MEASURE SWORDS

Expressions using "MEASURE SWORDS": measure swords with ♦ measure swords with smb. ♦ To measure swords with one. Additional references.
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