bout

About 2.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.

   a bout of drought

2. noun A boxing match.
3. noun An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
4. noun A roller derby match.
5. noun A fighting competition.
6. noun A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
7. noun The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
8. verb To contest a bout.

Similar words

fight fling spree turn round struggle outbreak attack battle clump

Often followed by

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Word family

bouts