Antonyms for duel
ˈdu əl, ˈdyu-du·el

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1. duel, affaire d'honneurnoun

   a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor

   Synonyms:
   affaire d'honneur

2. duelverb

   any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)

   Synonyms:
   affaire d'honneur

3. duelverb

   fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman

   "In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters"

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1. duelnoun

   Synonyms:
   monomachia, monomachy

How to use duel in a sentence?

1. Ryan McGrath:

   There will be weakness in Irish bond prices on Monday morning. Markets don't like uncertainty but we don't anticipate a big knee-jerk reaction because investors were ready for this outcome, the longer it goes on, the more nervous investors would become. If you had the duel challenges of political instability coupled with a looming 'Brexit' (after Britain's In-Out EU referendum), the Irish bond market would find it very challenging.

2. Oscar Wilde:

   my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to death. one or the other has to go.

3. Maine Gov. Paul LePage:

   When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825, and we would have a duel, that’s how angry I am, and I would not put my gun in the air, I guarantee you, I would not be (Alexander) Hamilton. I would point it right between his eyes, because he is a snot-nosed little runt and he has not done a damn thing since he’s been in this Legislature to help move the state forward.

4. Lester R Bittel:

   Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.

5. Ewa Brodnicka:

   I did not give up the duel because I did not want to disappoint the fans and the organizers, despite the fact that the last 3 weeks of preparations are fighting pain and crossing my own limits during the rehabilitation of a broken leg.

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