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Definition of "mêlée" []

  • Confused, hand-to-hand fighting in a pitched battle. (noun)
  • A violent free-for-all. See Synonyms at brawl. (noun)
  • A confused tumultuous mingling, as of a crowd: the rush-hour melee. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "mêlée" in a sentence
  • "I'm finally getting around to leveling/playing a warlock myself (just hit 77 yesterday) and I must say turning into a demon and joining my axe wielding friend in melee is ever so much fun."
  • "We did at last contrive to do so; we invented what we call the melee, and our revised rules in the event of a melee will be found set out upon a later page."
  • "Melee: Pistols may be used as saps and muskets as clubs in melee combat, but they are reasonably fragile and whenever you roll a natural 1 on the attack roll the weapon is broken."
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