Battling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Battling is a noun meaning A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
Meaning
A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
More Meanings
- That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.
- Nourishing; fattening.
- Fertile.
- Engaged in battle.
- present participle of battle
- Engagement in combat, fighting; struggling.
- Struggling to make a life; doing it hard.
Example Sentences
We felt sorry for the old pioneer, after a life-time of hard battling.
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, [...]
Word Forms
- battlings
- batteling
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fight, conflict, combat, struggle, engagement, struggling.
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