Dictionary Entry
battle
battle is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Fertile. See Battel, a. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Fertile. See Battel.
- 2transitive verb
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
- 3transitive verb
A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
- 4transitive verb
A division of an army; a battalion.
- 5transitive verb
The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
- 6noun
To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
- 7transitive verb
To assail in battle; to fight.
- 8noun
an energetic attempt to achieve something
"getting through the crowd was a real struggle"
"he fought a battle for recognition"
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- 9noun
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"
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- 10noun
an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)--Thomas Paine
"the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"
"police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
- 11verb
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"
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