battle

battle has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition"
• n.. 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"
• n.. an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
• v.. 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"