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Words related to battle

Related / Similar Words: struggle, conflict, fight, engagement, combat

Definition:

an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition";

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";

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";

battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget";

Hyponyms: duel, scramble, scuffle, joust, tilt, Armageddon, pitched battle, naval battle, combat, armed combat, dogfight, assault, Battle of Britain, Drogheda, class struggle, class war, class warfare, rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising, pacification, counterinsurgency, strife, tug-of-war, turf war, fight, fighting, scrap, feud, war, warfare, wrestle

Part Meronyms: war, warfare

Derivational Morphology: fight, struggle, engage, wage, combat, fighting, scrap, armed combat, combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper, conflict, engagement

Anagrams: ballet, tablet, ablate

Language Translations:
Albanian: betejë		Bosnian: bitka
Catalan: batalla		Chinese: 爭鬥
Croatian: bitka		Danish: slag
Dutch: slag		Esperanto: batalo
Finnish: taistelu		French: bataille
German: Schlacht		Greek: μάχη
Hebrew: קרב		Hungarian: csata
Italian: battaglia		Japanese: 戦い
Korean: 전투		Latin: dimicatio
Lithuanian: mūšis		Polish: bitwa
Portuguese: batalha		Romanian: bătălie
Russian: битва		Slovak: bitka
Spanish: batalla		Swedish: slag
Turkish: cenk

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