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(n)
A dish (meal) involving scrambled eggs and a hodgepodge of complementary ingredients, usually closer to a casserole than to an omelette.
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(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
(v)
(ambitransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
(Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
Confused and hasty speech.
(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.
A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavour.
A physical fight or struggle.
(countable) An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; an altercation.
The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
dispute; disputation; quarreling
(adj)
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
(countable) A dispute or heated argument (especially one that is verbal).
The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
Bitter conflict, sometimes violent.
Alternative spelling of combatting: present participle and gerund of combat
A confrontation; a dare.
A distressing or dangerous situation.
Fighting or quarreling among the members of a single group or side.
(boxing) A boxing match.
Effort; the act of one who strives.
To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
(intransitive) To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
Extreme pain.
Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
The act or instance of suppressing.
(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
(countable) A competition.
British standard spelling of endeavor.
The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
(law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
A stroke; a blow.
The act of pursuing.
(medicine) Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.).
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
A person who fights; a combatant.
A protective coating or covering.
The act, process, or result of reducing.
The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement
Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
The act of contravening (a rule, regulation, law, or order) or of not fulfilling (an obligation, promise, or agreement).
(figuratively, with with) To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
A person engaged in combat, often armed.
One who counts.
(countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.
The effort of performing or doing something.
(wrestling) A person who wrestles.
The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.
The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.
(military, often attributive) The fighting of a war.
A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
A response.
A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
Direction.
A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
A formal objection, especially one by a group.
(often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
(countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
(Australia, of males) homosexual
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
(sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
(aviation) An armed helicopter tasked to attack the enemy.
A particular geographic region.
Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
(figuratively, sometimes ironically) A grand, concerted effort towards some purportedly worthy cause.
(Islam) A holy war undertaken by Muslims.
Of or pertaining to a nidus.
Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
A freshwater fish, taxonomic name Lota lota, which is similar to the ling and the cusk and spawns in the winter.
A surname.
the campaign of a candidate to be elected
(banking) Initialism of Bank of Japan; also BoJ.