battling

noun 4adj 3

Collocations

ADJ.

all, cold, hard, other, over, real, silver, still

VERB + BATTLING

quit, streams, workshops

BATTLING + NOUN

addiction, attention, bowser, cancer, creatures, distribution, everyone's, hepatitis

PREP.

after, from, on

Definitions

noun

A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.

That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.

adj

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, [...]

Fertile.

adj

Engaged in battle.

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Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

We felt sorry for the old pioneer, after a life-time of hard battling.

Wiktionary

After battling cancer for several years, he finally passed away at the age of 87.

Tatoeba · #712876

Mexico is experiencing unprecedented violence as drug cartels are battling over distribution routes.

Tatoeba · #719923

He's been battling hepatitis for 6 months now, but it looks like he's just starting to recover.

Tatoeba · #758007

Battling Bowser for real will require all 120 stars.

Tatoeba · #758008

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