Definition of battle:
		
	
		
		
		(n) :
		
		a general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the  divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat; a struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life
		
								
				"the whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day.  -H. Morley."
			
			
	
		
		
		(v) :
		
		to join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories; to assail in battle; to 
fight