Battled
[bætld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Battle
(p. p.) Embattled.
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Examples
- 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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