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Meaning of battle

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  battle
      n 1: 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" [syn: {battle}, {conflict},
           {fight}, {engagement}]
      2: an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through
         the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for
         recognition" [syn: {struggle}, {battle}]
      3: 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" [syn: {conflict}, {struggle},
         {battle}]
      v 1: 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"; "they
           battled over the budget" [syn: {battle}, {combat}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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