battle🔊

A contest, a struggle.

A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.

(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement. +

(rare) A division of an army; a battalion.

(obsolete) The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.

(military) (battle buddy).

To join in battle; to contend in fight

To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.

Of grass or pasture: nutritious to cattle or sheep; fattening, nourishing.

(by extension) Of land (originally pastureland) or soil: fertile, fruitful.

To feed or nourish (someone or something).

To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.