battle
- Proper noun. (surname, habitational) from places in England that have been sites of a battle.
- Proper noun. town in East Sussex.
- Adjective. (context, UK) (context, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
- Adjective. (context, UK) Fertile; fruitful.
- Verb. (transitive, UK) To nourish; feed.
- Verb. (transitive, UK) To render fertile or fruitful, as in soil.
- Noun. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
- Noun. A struggle; a contest; as, ''the battle of life''.
- Noun. (context, now) A division of an army; a battalion.
- Noun. (obsolete) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
- Verb. (intransitive) : To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
- Verb. (transitive) : To assail in battle; to fight.
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