Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to battle
Participle: battled
Gerund: battling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | battle |
| you | battle |
| he;she;it | battles |
| we | battle |
| you | battle |
| they | battle |
Perfect
| I | have battled |
| you | have battled |
| he;she;it | has battled |
| we | have battled |
| you | have battled |
| they | have battled |
Past
| I | battled |
| you | battled |
| he;she;it | battled |
| we | battled |
| you | battled |
| they | battled |
Pluperfect
| I | had battled |
| you | had battled |
| he;she;it | had battled |
| we | had battled |
| you | had battled |
| they | had battled |
Future
| I | will battle |
| you | will battle |
| he;she;it | will battle |
| we | will battle |
| you | will battle |
| they | will battle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have battled |
| you | will have battled |
| he;she;it | will have battled |
| we | will have battled |
| you | will have battled |
| they | will have battled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | battle |
| you | battle |
| he;she;it | battle |
| we | battle |
| you | battle |
| they | battle |
Perfect
| I | have battled |
| you | have battled |
| he;she;it | have battled |
| we | have battled |
| you | have battled |
| they | have battled |
Imperfect
| I | battled |
| you | battled |
| he;she;it | battled |
| we | battled |
| you | battled |
| they | battled |
Pluperfect
| I | had battled |
| you | had battled |
| he;she;it | had battled |
| we | had battled |
| you | had battled |
| they | had battled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would battle |
| you | would battle |
| he;she;it | would battle |
| we | would battle |
| you | would battle |
| they | would battle |
Perfect
| I | would have battled |
| you | would have battled |
| he;she;it | would have battled |
| we | would have battled |
| you | would have battled |
| they | would have battled |
Imperative
| you | battle |
| we | Let's battle |
| you | battle |
Verbs conjugated like 'battle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'battle'
bottle,
brattle,
buttle,
rattle,
sattle,
tattle,
wattle,
babble,
baffle,
bale,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English batel, batell, batelle, batayle, bataylle, borrowed from Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“fighting and fencing exercises”) from Latin battuō (“to strike, hit, beat, fight”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from a Gaulish or Proto-Germanic root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to stab, dig”), related to Old English beado (“battle”); or possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit, strike, beat”). Doublet of battalia and battel. Displaced native Old English ġefeoht, beado, camp, and wīg (“battle”), among others. See: Latin '
battuō'.
Verbs referencing "battle"
Japanese
バトる.
Sample Sentences
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Scientists always battle over theories.
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She has been battling against cancer for years.
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Hard work is required from men and machines as I was to experience later when footplating Lambton No 5 on five bogies battling its way up Newtondale. [1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 415:]
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She has been battling cancer for years.