| proxy fight | a measure used by an acquirer to gain control of a takeover target, acquirer tries to persuade other shareholders that the management of the target should be replaced |
| fight | a boxing or wrestling match, the fight was on television last night |
| pillow fight | a child's game of fighting with pillows |
melee
scrimmage
battle royal | a noisy riotous fight |
| struggle battle | an energetic attempt to achieve something, getting through the crowd was a real struggle, he fought a battle for recognition |
battle
conflict fight engagement | a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war, Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga, he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement |
| pitched battle | a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place |
| naval battle | a pitched battle between naval fleets |
conflict
struggle battle | an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals), the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph--Thomas Paine, police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs |
| battle of wits | a contest in which intelligence rather than violence is used |
fight fighting
combat scrap | the act of fighting, any contest or struggle, a fight broke out at the hockey game, there was fighting in the streets, the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap |
knife fight
snickersnee
cut-and-thrust | fighting with knives |
rumble
gang fight | a fight between rival gangs of adolescents |
| custody battle | litigation to settle custody of the children of a divorced couple |
Atlanta
battle of Atlanta | a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it, |
Austerlitz
battle of Austerlitz | a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (), the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II |
| Battle of Britain | the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it |
| Battle of Kerbala | a battle inin which the grandson of Mohammed and his followers were killed, the Battle of Kerbala is the basis for the Ta'ziyehs that are performed annually |
Battle of the Ardennes Bulge
Battle of the Bulge
Ardennes counteroffensive | a battle during World War II, in December von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise |
Battle of the Marne
Belleau Wood
Chateau-Thierry
Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
Bismarck Sea
battle of the Bismarck Sea | a naval battle in World War II, Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March |
Boyne
battle of Boyne | a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in , William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts |
Brunanburh
battle of Brunanburh | a battle in when Athelstan defeated the Scots |
Bull Run
Battle of Bull Run | either of two battles during the American Civil War ( and ), Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles |
Bunker Hill
battle of Bunker Hill | the first important battle of the American War of Independence () which was fought at Breed's Hill, the British defeated the colonial forces |
Caporetto
battle of Caporetto | battle of World War I (), Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces |
Chattanooga
battle of Chattanooga | in the American Civil War () the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg |
Chickamauga
battle of Chickamauga | a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (), Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces |
Coral Sea
battle of the Coral Sea | a Japanese defeat in World War II (May ), the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers |
Cowpens
battle of Cowpens | battle in the American Revolution, Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British |
Crecy
battle of Crecy | the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War, in the English under Edward III defeated the French under Philip of Valois |
Cunaxa
battle of Cunaxa | battle inBC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne |
Cynoscephalae
battle of Cynoscephalae | the battle that ended the second Macedonian War ( BC), the Romans defeated Philip V who lost his control of Greece |
El Alamein
Al Alamayn
Battle of El Alamein | a pitched battle in World War II () resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel |
Flodden
Battle of Flodden Field | a battle in , the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed |
Fontenoy
Battle of Fontenoy | a battle in in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland |
Fredericksburg
Battle of Fredericksburg | an important battle in the American Civil War (), the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee |
Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg | a battle of the American Civil War (), the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union |
Granicus
Battle of Granicus River | the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians ( BC) |
Guadalcanal
Battle of Guadalcanal | a battle in World War II in the Pacific (-), the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces |
Hastings
battle of Hastings | the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II () and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest |
Hohenlinden
battle of Hohenlinden | a battle during the Napoleonic Wars (), the French defeated the Austrians |
Ipsus
battle of Ipsus | a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great ( BC), Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetrius |
Issus
battle of Issus | a battle ( BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III |
Ivry
battle of Ivry
Ivry la Bataille | a battle () in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne |
Jena
Battle of Jena | the battle inin which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians |
Jutland
battle of Jutland | an indecisive naval battle in World War I (), fought between the British and German fleets off the northwestern coast of Denmark |
Lake Trasimenus
Battle of Lake Trasimenus | a battle in BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius |
Langside
battle of Langside | () Catholic forces supporting Mary Queen of Scots were routed by Protestants |
Lepanto
Battle of Lepanto | Turkish sea power was destroyed in by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope |