Need another word that means the same as “battle”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “battle” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Battle” are: struggle, conflict, engagement, fight, clash, skirmish, dogfight, affray, fray, encounter, confrontation, contest, competition, combat, contend with, scramble, labour
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “battle” as a noun can have the following definitions:
affray | Noisy quarrel. Lowe was charged with causing an affray. |
clash | An incompatibility leading to disagreement. There have been minor clashes with security forces. |
competition | The activity or condition of striving to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others. A beauty competition. |
conflict | A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests. Bewildered by her own inner conflict she could only stand there feeling vulnerable. |
confrontation | A hostile disagreement face-to-face. Four months of violent confrontation between government and opposition forces. |
contest | An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants. A contest between traditional and liberal views. |
dogfight | A close combat between military aircraft. Their rancor dated from a political dogfight between them. |
encounter | A casual or unexpected convergence. He was shot dead in a police encounter. |
engagement | The duration of an agreement to get married. He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement. |
fight | The act of fighting any contest or struggle. The team was full of fight. |
fray | A noisy fight. |
skirmish | A minor short-term fight. There was a skirmish over the budget. |
struggle | A forceful or violent effort to get free of restraint or resist attack. The centre is the result of the scientists struggle to realize their dream. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “battle” as a verb can have the following definitions:
combat | Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle. We must combat the prejudices against other races. |
contend with | Maintain or assert. |
fight | Fight against or resist strongly. Siblings are always fighting. |
labour | Of a woman in childbirth be in labour. United laboured against confident opponents. |
scramble | Order (a fighter aircraft or its pilot) to take off immediately in an emergency or for action. As the jet headed towards Italian airspace two F104 fighters scrambled from a base in Sicily to intercept it. |
struggle | To exert strenuous effort against opposition. Passengers struggle with bags and briefcases. |
amphibious | Relating to, living in, or suited for both land and water. An amphibious assault. |
antagonist | A substance which interferes with or inhibits the physiological action of another. LSD is a serotonin antagonist. |
battlefield | The piece of ground on which a battle is or was fought. An ideological battlefield. |
belligerent | Someone who fights (or is fighting. A conference of socialists from all belligerent countries. |
challenger | A person who makes a rival claim to or threatens someone’s hold on a position. Heroic challengers of authority. |
clash | (of colours) appear discordant or ugly when placed close to each other. We play our home games when they do not clash with those of Liverpool or Everton. |
compete | Compete for something engage in a contest measure oneself against others. He competed in numerous track meets as a child. |
competitor | The contestant you hope to defeat. Our main industrial competitors. |
contend | Compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others. He contends that the judge was wrong. |
contender | The contestant you hope to defeat. A presidential contender. |
counterpart | One of two copies of a legal document. The minister held talks with his French counterpart. |
crossfire | A lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions. The sponsors are caught in the crossfire of the battle between the world champion and his team boss. |
dissident | Characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards. A dissident who had been jailed by a military regime. |
encounter | An unexpected or casual meeting with someone or something. What do we know about the people we encounter in our daily lives. |
enemy | A personal enemy. This man was her sworn enemy. |
fight | Fight against or resist strongly. General Hill fights his troops well. |
hostile | Unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business. The brewery fought off a hostile takeover bid last year. |
invasion | (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body. There was a brief pitch invasion when Sunderland scored. |
irreconcilable | Incapable of being resolved. These two views of the economy are irreconcilable. |
militant | A militant reformer. Militants became increasingly impatient of parliamentary manoeuvres. |
nemesis | (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance. Injury consistently his nemesis struck him down during the match. |
opponent | Characterized by active hostility. Against superior opponents they fell two goals behind. |
oppose | Actively resist (a person or system. The board opposed his motion. |
opposing | Characterized by active hostility. The brothers fought on opposing sides in the war. |
overtake | Catch up with and possibly overtake. Weariness overtook him and he retired to bed. |
rival | Be the rival of be in competition with. She has no rivals as a female rock singer. |
unbeatable | Hard to defeat. Views from the patio are unbeatable. |
unseat | Remove from political office. Rawhide unseated Kevin Bradley at the first fence. |
vie | Compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others. The athletes were vying for a place in the British team. |
warfare | The waging of armed conflict against an enemy. Diplomatic warfare. |
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