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"he fought a battle for recognition"nounan energetic attempt to achieve something
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"police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"nounan open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)type of:
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"Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"nouna hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
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"they battled over the budget"verbbattle or contend against in or as if in a battle
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Definition that contains battle
- battle battle or contend against in or as if in a battle
- combat battle or contend against in or as if in a battle
- makin battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting
- somme battle in World War I (1916)
- somme battle of World War II (1944)
- ypres battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
- ypres battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
- ypres battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
- tarawa battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting
- dreadnought battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber