Battle
['bæt(ə)l] or ['bætl]
Definition
(noun.) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; 'Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga'; 'he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement'.
(verb.) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; 'The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq'; 'We must combat the prejudices against other races'; 'they battled over the budget'.
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Definition
(a.) Fertile. See Battel, a.
(v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
(v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
(v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.
(v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
(n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
(v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.
Checker: Ronnie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Combat, engagement, action, conflict, contest, fight, rencontre, collision, skirmish, brush, affair.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fight, conflict, contest, combat, engagement, encounter, action
ANT:Peace, truce, pacification, arbitrament, council, mediation
Typist: Nola
Definition
adj. (dial.) nourishing.—v.t. (obs.) to feed.
n. a contest between opposing armies: a fight or encounter: (arch.) a body of troops in battle array esp. in phrase 'main battle.'—v.i. to contend in fight: to maintain champion (with against with).—ns. Bat′tle-axe -ax a kind of axe once used in battle; Bat′tle-cry a war-shout; Bat′tlefield the place on which a battle is fought; Bat′tle-piece a passage or a painting describing a battle.—adj. Bat′tle-scarred scarred in battle.—ns. Bat′tleship a war-ship of the first class; Pitched′-bat′tle a battle fought on chosen ground.—Battle royal a general m阬閑—Half the battle said of anything which ensures success.—Line of battle troops in array for battle; Line-of-battle ship a ship strong enough to form one of the line.—To join do battle to fight.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Battle signifies striving with difficulties, but a final victory over the same. If you are defeated in battle, it denotes that bad deals made by others will mar your prospects for good.
Editor: Warren
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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Examples
- She brought him some milk, and he drank of it gratefully and lay down again, to forget in pleasant dreams his lost battle and his humbled pride. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Now the two great fleets closed in a titanic struggle far above the fiendish din of battle in the gorgeous gardens of the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He gave battle at Kadessia (637). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was conducted at once to where Sheridan was located with his troops drawn up in line of battle facing the Confederate army near by. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Go, herald, and ask her whether she expects any one to do battle for her in this her cause. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The battle-field was so densely covered with forest that but little could be seen, by any one person, as to the progress made. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was one with the _Ingl閟_ still working under the bridge and he was one with all of the battle and with the Republic. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This kept him out of the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was a series of battles, in which the Russian armies were finally defeated and the Grand Duke of Kieff taken prisoner. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- About fifteen hundred years before Christ, this camp-ground of ours by the Waters of Merom was the scene of one of Joshua's exterminating battles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This battle at Valmy--it was little more than a cannonade--was one of the decisive battles in the world's history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Instantly he drew his long-sword, and thus evenly armed we set to in earnest for one of the closest battles I ever have fought. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He had a thousand anecdotes about the famous battles; he knew the position of every regiment and the loss which each had incurred. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- With all his cruel ferocity and coldness there was an undercurrent of something in Tars Tarkas which he seemed ever battling to subdue. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He went and leaned on the back of the chair again, and seemed to be battling with his own anger, while she looked towards him sadly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For a time Gautama wandered alone, the loneliest figure in history, battling for light. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The golden-haired, white-skinned therns battling with desperate courage in hand-to-hand conflict with their ebony-skinned foemen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It must have been he whose men you have heard battling within the precincts of the temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You would not wonder that I defend him, said the girl, could you have seen him as I saw him, battling in my behalf with that huge hairy brute. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- After battling for many tedious minutes with the precipice, the same scene presented itself to me, which had wrapt him in extatic wonder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The more she strove to bring him to her, the more he battled her back. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Phoenicians, the Carthagenians, the English, Moors, Romans, all have battled for Tangier--all have won it and lost it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Those days were heroic ones, for he then battled against mighty odds, and the prospects were dim and not very encouraging. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They battled it together for a long time, which was more than either the gentleman or lady concerned in it deserved. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- When mankind were few, it was not here that they battled with the powerful agents of nature, and were enabled to cover the globe with offspring. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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