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Synonyms for battle
Synonyms for battle: struggle, combat and conflict. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for battle
Interchangeable with battle in this sense
Audited under battle's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one battle carries in that sense.
- strugglenoun, in the sense "an energetic attempt to achieve something"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name battle as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under battle's own sense. The second reach battle from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
an energetic attempt to achieve something
He fought a battle for recognition.
The true synonym
struggle
Same sentence, swapped: He fought a struggle for recognition.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot battle is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- engagement
- worst
- share
Where battle turns up in the game
battle is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where battle is the trap
- cracknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is pass, in the sense "a usually brief attempt", and battle is on the board beside it.
- trialnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is run, in the sense "the act of testing something", and battle is one of the three tiles that lose.
- fightnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is competitiveness, in the sense "an aggressive willingness to compete", and battle is on the board beside it.
Play battle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so battle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. battle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.