Synonyms of the word battle


BATTLEACTION - ATTEMPT - COMBAT - CONFLICT - CONTEND - EFFORT - ENDEAVOR - ENDEAVOUR - ENGAGEMENT - FIGHT - STRUGGLE - TRY

battle

  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
  • v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To nourish; feed.
  • v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To render (for example soil) fertile…
  • n. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an…
  • n. A struggle; a contest.
  • n. (now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
  • n. (obsolete) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
  • v. (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight.
  • v. (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.

action

  • n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
  • n. A way of motion or functioning.
  • n. A fast-paced activity.
  • n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
  • n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
  • n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
  • n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
  • n. (military) Combat.
  • n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
  • n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
  • n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
  • n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
  • n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
  • n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
  • interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
  • v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

attempt

  • v. To try.
  • v. (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
  • v. (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
  • v. (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
  • n. The action of trying at something.
  • n. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

combat

  • n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
  • v. (transitive) To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

conflict

  • n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

contend

  • v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
  • v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
  • v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

effort

  • n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
  • n. An endeavour.
  • n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
  • v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

endeavor

  • n. A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
  • n. Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
  • v. (obsolete) To exert oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something).
  • v. To work with purpose.

endeavour

  • n. British standard spelling of endeavor.
  • v. British standard spelling of endeavor.

engagement

  • n. (countable) an appointment, especially to speak or perform.
  • n. (uncountable) connection or attachment.
  • n. (uncountable, by extension, about human emotional state) the feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected…
  • n. (countable, uncountable) the period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
  • n. (fencing, countable) the point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective…

fight

  • v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
  • v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
  • v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
  • n. An occasion of fighting.
  • n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
  • n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
  • n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
  • n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
  • n. The will or ability to fight.
  • n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

struggle

  • n. Strife, contention, great effort.
  • v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
  • v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

try

  • v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
  • v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
  • v. To test, to work out.
  • v. To experiment, to strive.
  • v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
  • v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
  • v. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. An act of tasting or sampling.
  • n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
  • n. (American football) a field goal or extra point.
  • adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

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