• an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a Battle for recognition"
• 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"
• 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"
• Battle or contend against in or as if in a Battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they Battled over the budget"

'Battle' in other languages