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Meaning: A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions Synonyms: battle; engagement; conflict; fight Context examples: Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga / he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement Hypernyms ("battle" is a kind of...): action; military action (a military engagement) Domain category: armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "battle"): dogfight (an aerial engagement between fighter planes) armed combat; combat (an engagement fought between two military forces) naval battle (a pitched battle between naval fleets) pitched battle (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place) Armageddon (any catastrophically destructive battle) assault (close fighting during the culmination of a military attack) Instance hyponyms: Drogheda (in 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants) Battle of Britain (the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it) Holonyms ("battle" is a part of...): war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Meaning: An energetic attempt to achieve something Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions Synonyms: struggle; battle Context examples: getting through the crowd was a real struggle / he fought a battle for recognition Hypernyms ("battle" is a kind of...): attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "battle"): duel (any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)) scramble; scuffle (an unceremonious and disorganized struggle) joust; tilt (a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances)
Meaning: An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions Synonyms: Context examples: the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph / police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs Hypernyms ("battle" is a kind of...): group action (action taken by a group of people) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "battle"): war; warfare (an active struggle between competing entities) feud (a bitter quarrel between two parties) combat; fight; fighting; scrap (the act of fighting; any contest or struggle) turf war (a bitter struggle for territory or power or control or rights) tug-of-war (any hard struggle between equally matched groups) strife (bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension) counterinsurgency; pacification (actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency) insurrection; rebellion; revolt; rising; uprising (organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another) class struggle; class war; class warfare (conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes))
Meaning: Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle Classified under: Verbs of fighting, athletic activities Synonyms: battle; combat Context examples: The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq / We must combat the prejudices against other races / they battled over the budget Hypernyms (to "battle" is one way to...): contend; fight; struggle (be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight) Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "battle"): dogfight (engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane) wrestle (combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force) Sentence frames: Somebody ----s Sentence examples: Sam and Sue battle "Eat when you're hungry, and drink when you're dry." (English proverb) "Not every sweet root give birth to sweet grass." (Native American proverb, tribe unknown) "One day is for us, and the other is against us." (Arabic proverb) "A cheeky person owns half the world" (Dutch proverb) Useful links: Meaning of military machine Pronunciation of dogfight Meaning of attempt Pronunciation of pacification Meaning of revolt
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