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(battl)

To nourish; feed.

To render fertile or fruitful, as in soil.

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(battl)

To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.

She has been battling against cancer for years .

To assail in battle; to fight or struggle.

She has been battling cancer for years .

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(lb) Of individuals: to make personal contact.

#(senseid)To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

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, passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away

#To come face to face with someone by arrangement.

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#To be introduced to someone.

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#*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

#(lb) To French kiss someone.

(lb) Of groups: to gather or oppose.

#To gather for a formal or social discussion.

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#*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

#To come together in conflict.

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#*:Sir said Epynegrys is þ^t the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll / As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy / for here is for me / And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan

#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:Weapons more violent, when next we meet , / May serve to better us and worse our foes.

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, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches

#(lb) To play a match.

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(lb) To make physical or perceptual contact.

#To converge and finally touch or intersect.

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#*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner (might do).

#To touch or hit something while moving.

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#To adjoin, be physically touching.

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To satisfy; to comply with.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.

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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, / Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.