n. 25B6; noun
he was killed in the battle : FIGHT, armed conflict, clash, struggle, skirmish, engagement, fray, duel; war, campaign, crusade; fighting, warfare, combat, action, hostilities; informal scrap, dogfight, shoot-out. See lists here and at siege , war .
a legal battle : CONFLICT, clash, contest, competition, struggle; disagreement, argument, altercation, dispute, controversy.
25B6; verb
he has been battling against illness : FIGHT, combat, contend with; resist, withstand, stand up to, confront; war, feud; struggle, strive, work.
Mark battled his way to the bar : FORCE, push, elbow, shoulder, fight; struggle, labour.
Battles
See also siege . Lepanto
Aboukir Bay Lexington
Actium Leyte Gulf
Agincourt Little Bighorn
Antietam Malplaquet
Arbela Marathon
Arnhem Marne
Atlantic Marston Moor
Austerlitz Megiddo
Ayacucho Midway
Balaclava Mohács
Bannockburn Mons
Blenheim Naseby
Borodino Navarino
Bosworth (Field) Nechtansmere
Boyne Nile
Britain Omdurman
Bulge Oudenarde
Bunker Hill Passchendaele
Cambrai Pharsalus
Cape St Vincent Plains of Abraham
Cerro Gordo Plassey
Corunna Plataea
Crécy Prestonpans
Culloden Princeton
Edgehill Quatre Bras
El Alamein Ramillies
El Mansûra River Plate
Erzurum Roncesvalles
Falkirk Sadowa
Falklands Salamis
Flodden Sedan
Gazala Sedgemoor
Gettysburg Somme
Goose Green Stalingrad
Guadalcanal Tannenberg
Hastings Tewkesbury
Imphal Thermopylae
Inkerman Trafalgar
Issus Tumbledown Mountain
Jena Verdun
Jutland Waterloo
Killiecrankie Xuzhou
Kohima Ypres
Leipzig Zama