- pitched battle as a noun:
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pitched battle
noun
1 pitched battle
A fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place.
Roget 720: contention, strife; contest, contestation†; struggle; belligerency; opposition etc. 708. controversy, polemics; debate etc. (discussion) 476; war of words, logomachy†, litigation; paper war; high words etc. (quarrel) 713; sparring etc. v.. competition, rivalry; corrivalry†, corrivalship†, agonism†, concours†, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy†, gymkhana†; boat race, torpids†. wrestling, greco-roman wrestling; pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense; spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting; quarterstaff, single stick; gladiatorship†, gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti†, sumo; athletics, athletic sports; games of skill etc. 840. shindy†; fracas etc. (discord) 713; clash of arms; tussle, scuffle, broil, fray; affray, affrayment†; velitation†; colluctation†, luctation†; brabble†, brigue†, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash†, bushfighting†. free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight. conflict, skirmish; rencounter†, encounter; rencontre†, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting [Mediev.]; tournay†, list; pitched battle. death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle, Armageddon†. hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war. naval engagement, naumachia†, sea fight. duel, duello [It]; single combat, monomachy†, satisfaction, passage d'armes [Fr.], passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting, digladiation†; deeds of arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms etc. (warfare) 722. pugnacity; combativeness etc. adj.; bone of contention etc. 713. ... show more
is a specific kind of: battle, conflict, engagement, fight.
instances of which are: Agincourt | Austerlitz, battle of Austerlitz | Bannockburn | Battle of Kerbala | Ardennes counteroffensive, Battle of the Ardennes Bulge, Battle of the Bulge | Battle of the Marne, Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, Marne River | Blenheim | Borodino | Bosworth Field | Bouvines | battle of Boyne, Boyne | battle of Brunanburh, Brunanburh | Buena Vista | Battle of Bull Run, Bull Run | battle of Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill | Cannae | battle of Caporetto, Caporetto | Caudine Forks | Chaeronea | Chalons, Chalons-sur-Marne | Chancellorsville | Chapultepec | battle of Chattanooga, Chattanooga | battle of Chickamauga, Chickamauga | battle of Cowpens, Cowpens | battle of Crecy, Crecy | battle of Cunaxa, Cunaxa | battle of Cynoscephalae, Cynoscephalae | Al Alamayn, Battle of El Alamein, El Alamein | Battle of Flodden Field, Flodden | Battle of Fontenoy, Fontenoy | Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga | Battle of Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg | Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg | Battle of Granicus River, Granicus | Battle of Guadalcanal, Guadalcanal | battle of Hastings, Hastings | battle of Hohenlinden, Hohenlinden | battle of Ipsus, Ipsus | battle of Issus, Issus | battle of Ivry, Ivry, Ivry la Bataille | Battle of Jena, Jena | Kennesaw Mountain | Battle of Lake Trasimenus, Lake Trasimenus | battle of Langside, Langside | battle of Leuctra, Leuctra | Concord, Lexington, Lexington and Concord | battle of Lule Burgas, Lule Burgas | battle of Lutzen, Lutzen | Battle of Magenta, Magenta | Battle of Maldon, Maldon | Mantinea, Mantineia | battle of Marathon, Marathon | Marengo | battle of Marston Moor, Marston Moor | Metaurus River | battle of Minden, Minden | Battle of Monmouth, Battle of Monmouth Court House, Monmouth Court House | Battle of Naseby, Naseby | battle of Omdurman, Omdurman | battle of Panipat, Panipat | battle of Pharsalus, Pharsalus | battle of Philippi, Philippi | battle of Plassey, Plassey | battle of Plataea, Plataea | battle of Poitiers, Poitiers | Port Arthur | Battle of Puebla | Battle of Pydna, Pydna | Battle of Ravenna, Ravenna | Battle of Rocroi, Rocroi | battle of Rossbach, Rossbach | battle of St Mihiel, Saint-Mihiel, St Mihiel | battle of Saratoga, Saratoga | battle of Sempach, Sempach | battle of Pittsburgh Landing, battle of Shiloh, Shiloh | battle of Soissons-Reims, battle of the Aisne, battle of the Chemin-des-Dames, Soissons | battle of Solferino, Solferino | Battle of the Somme, Somme, Somme River | Battle of the Somme, Somme, Somme River | battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Spotsylvania | battle of Tannenberg, Tannenberg | battle of Tertry, Tertry | battle of Teutoburger Wald, Teutoburger Wald | battle of Tewkesbury, Tewkesbury | battle of Thermopylae, Thermopylae | battle of Trasimeno, Trasimeno | battle of Valmy, Valmy | battle of Verdun, Verdun | battle of Wagram, Wagram | Battle of Waterloo, Waterloo | Yalu River | battle of Ypres, first battle of Ypres, Ypres | battle of Ypres, second battle of Ypres, Ypres | battle of Ypres, third battle of Ypres, Ypres | battle of Zama, Zama ... show more.
Dutch: veldslag
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