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do battle

do battle verb: to engage in a fight; to battle.

Verb

do battle (third-person singular simple present does battle, present participle doing battle, simple past did battle, past participle done battle)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in a fight; to battle.
    • Many suburban trains in Birmingham do battle with inter-city ones on flat junctions either side of Birmingham New Street.2026 February 4, Olly Glover, “Rethink urban transport”, in Railway Magazine, number 1054, page 15

do battle meaning in Malayalam

do battle in Malayalam

to do battle, to war
പൊരുതുക porutuka

Forms of do battle

third-person singular presentdoes battle
present participledoing battle
pastdid battle
past participledone battle

Questions about do battle

What does do battle mean?
Do battle means to engage in a fight; to battle.
What is do battle in Malayalam?
Do battle in Malayalam is പൊരുതുക (porutuka). See Do battle meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is do battle?
Do battle is a verb.
What is the past tense of do battle?
The past tense of do battle is did battle.

Words near do battle in the dictionary

  1. do a runner
  2. do a slow burn
  3. do as I say and not as I do
  4. do as I say, not as I do
  5. do away with
  6. do battle
  7. do bears shit in the woods
  8. do bird
  9. do bits
  10. do business
  11. do by

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Adapted from Wiktionary: do battle (page history and authors); പൊരുതുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors). 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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