skirmished

verb

past tense of skirmish
1
as in brawled

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2
as in explored

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skirmished
  1. brawled
  2. explored
  3. boxed
  4. probed
  5. prospected
  6. found
  7. ascertained
  8. discovered
Verb
  • Punk and Rhodes brawled as WWE officials pulled them apart before SmackDown went off the air.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Another worker described the chaos as well over a dozen teens brawled inside the diner.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 17 June 2026
Definition of brawled
Verb
  • For decades, engineering, technical, and industrial processes first explored as methods of keeping nations safe or attacking enemies have also found their way into the civilian world.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In April, the family explored Portugal for 10 days, stopping in cities like Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of explored
Verb
  • Parton brought her cooking skills to the grocery aisle in 2022 with her Duncan Hines boxed baking mixes.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
  • But, practically speaking, none of it is imaginable or executable without digital technologies that are fundamentally black-boxed, inscrutable to individual cops on the beat and institutional decision-makers alike.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of boxed
Verb
  • Roman will spend more than a quarter of its planned five-year primary mission observing this 10,000-light-year-wide region, which is so sprawling and thick with stars that previous telescopes have scarcely probed its depths.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Democrats have also had their share of foot-in-the-mouth moments when probed about their takes on geopolitics.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of probed
Verb
  • With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The arena serves as the home arena for the Quebec Remparts of the QMJHL and has been prospected as a venue for a new or re-located National Hockey League team in Quebec City.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026
Definition of prospected
Verb
  • The company, founded in 1995, has grown through a combination of scale and acquisitions, building an operation that spans much of the food supply chain.
    — Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The trio, who founded the startup, were sued for securities fraud, common law fraud, and breach of contract.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of found
Verb
  • The nationalities of 111 other missing people had yet to be ascertained, authorities said.
    — Arshad R. Zargar, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The only clear purpose that can be ascertained from the statute is that it is supposed to encourage the investment of new capital in low-income communities.
    — Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of ascertained
Verb
  • Multiple playable pre-release versions of Portal 2 contain some of the most intriguing cut content discovered so far.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 30 Aug. 2026
  • For decades, an attacker discovered a vulnerability, a security tool generated an alert, an analyst investigated it, the issue was escalated and eventually someone decided what to do.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of discovered
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“Skirmished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skirmished. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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