battling

Pluralbattlings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of battle. Use this -ing form when the fighting or struggling is happening right now.

   The firefighters were battling the blaze all through the night.

   She is battling a bad cold this week.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Fighting in a war or in a hard struggle right now.

   The battling teams played hard until the very last minute.

   Tired but battling, the small group kept fighting back.

   Similarwarring, fighting

3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of fighting or struggling against someone or something.

   Like a tug-of-war that never seems to end.

   All that battling wore everyone down in the end.

   The endless battling between the two gangs frightened the town.

   Similarfighting, struggle, wrangling, combat, conflict

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4. 4
   noununcountable

   Food, animal feed, or manure that helps living things or soil grow rich.

   The pigs grew fat on rich battling from the kitchen scraps.

   He carted load after load of battling to spread on the soil.

   Similarfeed, fodder, nourishment

5. 5
   noununcountable

   The process of getting fat, or of making an animal grow fat.

   The battling of the geese took several weeks of steady feeding.

   Slow battling on good grass gave the best meat.

   Similarfattening

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6. 6
   adjective

   Giving lots of food value and helping people or animals grow fat.

   The battling feed made the calves strong and round.

   A bowl of battling stew warmed and filled them.

   Similarnourishing, fattening, nutritious, hearty

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7. 7
   adjective

   Rich enough to grow lots of healthy plants and crops, like good soil.

   The battling fields gave them more grain than they could store.

   Rich and battling, the bottomland never failed the family.

   Similarfertile, rich, fruitful, productive

   Oppositebarren, infertile, poor

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