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Fighting vs Battling - What's the difference?

fighting | battling |

As verbs the difference between fighting and battling

is that fighting is present participle of lang=en while battling is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between fighting and battling

is that fighting is engaged in war or other conflict while battling is nourishing; fattening.

As nouns the difference between fighting and battling

is that fighting is a fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight while battling is a growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.

fighting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * fighting chance

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Engaged in war or other conflict.
  • Apt to provoke a fight.
  • * 1925 April 11, "Books", in , page 26:
    • It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
  • * 1947 , (film):
    • Them's fighting words in my country!
  • * 2003 , Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy , Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 1576752372, page xi:
    • Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.

    Derived terms

    * fighting words

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
  • * {{quote-book, year=1613, author=, title=A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV., chapter=The Costlie Whore, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then here the warres end, here[206] our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard. '' }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1840, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1860, author=John Yeardley, title=Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly. }}

    Descendants

    * Korean: (hwaiting)

    battling

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
  • That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Nourishing; fattening.
  • * 1873 , Sir John Scott Keltie, The works of the British dramatists :
    • 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, [...]
  • Fertile.

    • Etymology 2

    From battle.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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