battlest

Verb (1)

battle (third-person singular simple present battles, present participle battling, simple past and past participle battled)

1. (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
   • Scientists always battle over theories.
2. (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
   • She has been battling cancer for years.

Verb (2)

battle (third-person singular simple present battles, present participle battling, simple past and past participle battled)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To feed or nourish (someone or something).
2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive) To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
   • 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.1670, J[ohn] R[ay], “Out of Doctour Fullers Worthies of England, such as are Not Entred Already in the Catalogues. [Devonshire.]”, in A Collection of English Proverbs […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire...

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