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battling

battling noun: a growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening. Also the present participle of battle.

Noun (1)

battling (plural battlings)

  1. A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
  2. That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.

Adjective (1)

battling (comparative more battling, superlative most battling)

  1. Nourishing; fattening.
    • Let it be me; and trust me, Margaret, The meads environ'd with the silver streams, Whose battling pastures fatten all my flocks, Yielding forth fleeces stapled with such wool As Lemnster cannot yield more finer stuff, [...]1873, Sir John Scott Keltie, The works of the British dramatists
  2. Fertile.

Adjective (2)

battling (comparative more battling, superlative most battling)

  1. Engaged in battle.

Noun (2)

battling (countable and uncountable, plural battlings)

  1. Engagement in combat, fighting; struggling.
  2. Struggling to make a life; doing it hard.
    • We felt sorry for the old pioneer, after a life-time of hard battling.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 47

Also used as

battling is also the present participle of battle.

battling meaning in Bengali

battling in Bengali

ব্যাটেলিং

Forms of battling

Noun
pluralbattlings
alternative formbatteling
Adjective
comparativemore battling
superlativemost battling

Origin of battling

From battle (“to nourish, feed”).

From Middle English batellynge, equivalent to battle + -ing.

From Middle English bataillinge, equivalent to battle + -ing.

Words formed from battling

Phrases with battling

Questions about battling

What does battling mean?
Battling means a growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
What is battling in Bengali?
Battling in Bengali is ব্যাটেলিং. See Battling meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is battling?
Battling can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of battling?
The plural of battling is battlings.

Words near battling in the dictionary

  1. battleworks
  2. battleworthy
  3. battlezone
  4. battlezones
  5. battlin'
  6. battling
  7. battling it out
  8. battling out
  9. battlings
  10. battner
  11. battners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: battling (page history and authors); battling (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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