battle
/ˈbætl̩/ verb C1- To join in battle; to contend in fight · Scientists always battle over theories.· She has been battling against cancer for years.
- To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with. · She has been battling cancer for years.
He/she/it battles · Past battled · Past participle battled · -ing form battling
Verb forms
- Base form
- battle
- He/she/it
- battles
- Past
- battled
- Past participle
- battled
- -ing form
- battling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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(These have sure to battle been!)--
All that while the fight with Baloo went on, and the monkeys yelled in the tank round Bagheera, and Mang the Bat, flying to and fro, carried the news of the great battle over the jungle, till even Hathi the Wild Elephant trumpeted, and, far away, scattered bands of the Monkey-Folk woke and came leaping along the tree-roads to help their comrades in the Cold Lairs, and the noise of the fight roused all the day birds for miles round.
“I--I may have cried out in the battle,” Bagheera answered.
“But here is Kaa to whom we owe the battle and thou owest thy life.
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