Battling

Synonyms for "battling" (45 found)

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Closest matches (9)

aggressive antagonistic bellicose belligerent bloodthirsty bloodybloody minded

Noun(2 words)

battle campaign

Strong matches (14)

Noun(9 words)

clash combat conflict contend contending cope engage engagement fight

combative contentious enemy ferocious fierce

Related words (22)

Noun(5 words)

fighting striving struggle struggling warring

hostile inimical martial militant military offensive pugnacious quarrelsome sanguinary savage scrappytrigger happytruculent unfriendly unpeaceful warlike

Verb(1 words)

skirmished

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5 relation types

More general

7 entries

challenge combat conflict contest effort hostilities struggle

More specific

14 entries

addictionair battleair to air combatcancer debt engagementground battlehand to hand fightingillness meleenaval engagementpoverty siegesiege warfare

Collocations

11 entries

battling addictionbattling cancerbattling debtbattling diseasebattling fatiguebattling for fundingbattling forcesbattling illnessbattling povertyfierce battlingprolonged battling

Inflections

2 entries

battled battles

Derivations

5 entries

battle battle-ready battlefield battleground battler

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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

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

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

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Battling Bowser for real will require all 120 stars.

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