Word Meanings - HARD-FOUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

contested; as, a hard-fought battle.

Related words: (words related to HARD-FOUGHT)

• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• CONTEST
  To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert. To contest an election. To strive to be elected. To dispute the declared result of an election. Syn. -- To
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• FOUGHTEN
  p. p. of Fight.
• BATTLEDOOR
  A child's hornbook. Halliwell. (more info) origin; cf. Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr. L. battalia; or cf. Pr. batedor batlet, fr. batre to beat, fr. L. 1.
• CONTESTANT
  One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
• BATTLED
  Embattled. Tennyson.
• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• BATTLEMENT
  fr. batailler, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature,
• CONTESTINGLY
  In a contending manner.
• FOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Fight.
• BATTLEMENTED
  Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.
• BATTLE SHIP
  An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.
• BATTLE-AX; BATTLE-AXE
  A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
• BATTLE RANGE
  The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.
• EMBATTLEMENT
  1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
• INCONTESTED
  Not contested. Addison.
• ENBATTLED
  Embattled.
• UNCONTESTABLE
  Incontestable.
• BATTELER; BATTLER
  A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.
• HARD-FOUGHT
  contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
• OVERBATTLE
  Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. "Overbattle grounds." Hooker.
• EMBATTLE
  To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. One in bright arms embattled full strong. Spenser. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the
• EMBATTLED
  Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like. 3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie. (more info) 1. Having indentations like a battlement. Chaucer.