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Meaning:
Noun:
- A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
- A struggle; a contest; as, ''the battle of life''.
- obsolete A division of an army; a battalion.
- obsolete The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
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Proper noun:
- a town in East Sussex.
- from=Middle English|dot= from places in England that have been sites of a [[battle.
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Verb:
- intransitive: To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
- transitive: To assail in battle; to fight.
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