battling
substantivoadjetivoadjetivoverbosubstantivoatestado nos diálogos
A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
substantivo
- 1
A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
- 2
That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.
Etimologia
From battle (“to nourish, feed”).
adjetivo
- 1
Nourishing; fattening.
Let it be me; and trust me, Margaret, The meads environ'd with the silver streams, Whose battling pastures fatten all my flocks, Yielding forth fleeces stapled with such wool As Lemnster cannot yield more finer stuff, [...]
- 2
Fertile.
adjetivo
- 1
Engaged in battle.
Etimologia
From Middle English batellynge, equivalent to battle + -ing.
verbo
- 1
Também uma forma de battlepresent participle of battle
substantivo
- 1
Engagement in combat, fighting; struggling.
- 2
Struggling to make a life; doing it hard.
We felt sorry for the old pioneer, after a life-time of hard battling.
Etimologia
From Middle English bataillinge, equivalent to battle + -ing.
Formas
- plural
- battlings
- comparativo
- more battling
- superlativo
- most battling
battling · A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
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