a prearranged combat with deadly weapons between two people following a formal procedure in the presence of seconds and traditionally fought until one party was wounded or killed, usually to settle a quarrel involving a point of honour
2.
a contest or conflict between two persons or parties
verbWord forms: duels, duelling, duelledWord forms: USduels, dueling or dueled(intransitive)
3.
to fight in a duel
4.
to contest closely
Derived forms
dueller (ˈdueller) or US dueler (ˈdueler)
noun
duellist (ˈduellist) or US duelist (ˈduelist)
noun
Word origin
C15: from Medieval Latin duellum, from Latin, poetical variant of bellum war; associated by folk etymology with Latin duo two
Examples of 'duelled' in a sentence
duelled
They have duelled without quarter and without acrimony.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
We hunt them, paint them and there was a time when we duelled with them.