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# battle

«battle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a fight between armies, ships or planes in a war** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a battle, battles); verb (battle, battles, battled, battling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A battle is a fight between armies, ships or planes in a war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#m1)

2) A battle is any hard struggle or contest, like a battle against illness or a battle of the bands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#m2)

3) To battle is to fight or try very hard against something difficult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons battles are famous fights in wars. In stories and games, battles are fights between heroes and enemies. In everyday life, people battle illness, weather or traffic. Phrases: fight a battle, battle against, uphill battle, battle it out, losing battle.

### examples

- The two armies met in a great battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#x1)
- Grandma is battling a cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#x2)
- The firefighters battled the flames all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#x3)
- The game ended in a pillow battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#x4)
- It was an uphill battle to finish the project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#x5)
- The teams battled it out in the final. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#x6)
- The knight was hurt in the battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#x7)
- Getting my brother to bed is a nightly battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#x8)
- A cruel battle was being fought. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/#x9)

### note

Countable noun; regular verb: battled. Similar: fight, war (a war is many battles). In a story, "battle" can be a game or argument, not real fighting.

### In the corpora

- [Then the battle begins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/2/)
- [Short, regular practice beats long battles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/12/)
- ["Bought the farm" means died, often in a crash or in battle; it is American slang.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/10/)
- ["Lost her battle with cancer" means she died of cancer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/19/)
- ["Battle fatigue" is an old name for the mental injury soldiers get from combat, now called trauma.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «battle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/battle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.