battle

A contest, a struggle.

• the battle of life

A contest, a struggle.; A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.

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

A division of an army; a battalion.archaic

• Thenne kyng Arthur made redy his hooſt in x batails and Nero was redy in the felde afore the caſtel Tarabil with a grete hooſt / & he had x batails with many mo peple than Arthur had […]
• They ſay, that the King diuided his Armie into three Battailes; whereof the Vant-guard onely well ſtrengthened with wings, came to fight.

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

• hovering aloofe in the fields he suffered Wyat his Van and main Battell (cutting off some of the Reare) to march undisturbed save with one shot, from Knights-Bridge to Charing Chrosse.

Clipping of battle buddy.abbreviationalt-ofclipping

To join in battle; to contend in fightintransitive

• Scientists always battle over theories.
• She has been battling against cancer for years.

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

• She has been battling cancer for years.

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

• battle grass battle pasture

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

• battle land battle soil

To feed or nourish (someone or something).Northern-EnglandScotlandUK

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

• To Devonſhire or Denſhire land. That is, to pare off the ſurface or top turf thereof, and to lay it upon heaps and burn it; vvhich aſhes are a marvelous improvement to battle barren land, by reaſon of the fixt ſalt vvhich they contain.