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Pitched Battle

Definition: Pitched Battle

Pitched Battle

Noun

1. A fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Pitched Battle

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Contention

Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Pitched Battle

English words defined with "pitched battle": Borodinonaval battlePlain battle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pitched battle": Fabius. (references)

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Modern Translation: Pitched Battle

Language Translations for "pitched battle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

luftim i egër, betejë fushore. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μάχη εκ παρατάξεωσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szabályos csata, szabályos ütközet, elkeseredett harc, ádáz harc. (various references)

   

Italian

  

battaglia campale. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itchedpay attlebay

   

Russian 

  

тщательно подготовленное сражение, генеральное сражение. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

batalla campal (battle royal). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ordnad batalj, fältslag. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

meydan savaşı. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trận đánh d n trận. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pitched Battle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-h-i-l-p-t-t-t"

-3 letters: telepathic.

-4 letters: biathlete, chapleted, petechial, tabletted.

-5 letters: athletic, bathetic, bedplate, bleached, celibate, chelated, cheliped, citeable, delicate, depilate, editable, latticed, pathetic, petechia, pileated, pleached, plicated, tableted, telepath, thetical, tithable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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