Synonyms:
scramble, scuffle
Meaning: an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
scramble
Meaning: to move hurriedly; "The friend scrambled after them"
Synonyms:
clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter
Meaning: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Usage examples
Some rats in the wall began to fight and bite each other, and squeak and scramble.
To have been personally engaged in a fighting scramble with such a man as George Vavasor was to him terrible.
At the words, the old horse arose with a scramble like thunder, shot his angry head and glaring eye over into Ruby's stall, and said--
Grandfather read me about Nelson the other evening, and showed me a picture of sailors cutting the enemy's arms off, as they tried to scramble on board ship.
'I gave it to the man too for Peter the second, for I thought it wasn't right he should sit in a cart, and scramble about from house to house; so now he can sell the cart and buy himself a coach to drive about in.'
This demoralizing doctrine had been promulgated by Jackson, and acted upon for so many years that it was too much to expect of human nature that the Whigs should not adopt it, partially at least, when their turn came, But we are left in no doubt as to the way in which Lincoln regarded the unseemly scramble.