BATTLEFIELD


Meaning of BATTLEFIELD in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

war

The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel - all pits and trenches - but dry.

■ VERB

become

Hundreds are injured as the streets of Berlin become a battlefield .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Thousands died on the battlefields of northern France.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Another program, called the battlefield combat identification system, is similar to an Air Force system used to identify friendly aircraft.

But both sides privately admit that older voters will be a major target and states with many retirees will be major battlefields.

Death enveloped the world, seeping from boardrooms to battlefields.

General Schwarzkopf took the same attitude with his battlefield commanders.

He reappeared as soon as the battlefield situation improved.

Now it is a prosperous place, making its living from light industry and the visitors who come to tour the battlefields.

The triage system originated as a speedy method of prioritising patients that poured into battlefield hospitals.

They achieved resounding success, shouting psalms on the battlefield and when marching.

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