Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nourishing; fattening.
- Fertile.
- noun A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
- noun That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.
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- verb Present participle of
battle . - noun A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a
fattening . - noun That which
nourishes orfattens , asfood , orfeed for animals, ormanure for soil. - adjective
Nourishing ;fattening . - adjective
Fertile .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Ben S. Bernanke deserves another term as Federal Reserve Chairman based on his success in battling the financial crisis, said Princeton University Economist Paul Krugman, a winner of the Nobel Prize.
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The obesity epidemic is threatening national security, so schools — which are on the front lines in battling the problem — need to boot out junk food and serve healthier snacks and meals, a group of retired military leaders is announcing today.
Facing unfit recruits, military leaders target food in schools 2010
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She held out her arms for him to place the wrap about her -- her valiant little arms that were so wise and steel-like in battling with the breakers, and that yet were such just mere-woman's arms, round and warm and white, delicious as a woman's arms should be, with the canny muscles, masking under soft-roundness of contour and fine smooth skin, capable of being flexed at will by the will of her.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Also similar to the civil war, the US is again battling over states 'rights.
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It's conceivable that Tarvaris Jackson and Sage Rosenfels could begin battling for the starting job at the outset of training camp for a second consecutive year only to have Favre show up after the Mankato portion of the practices are complete.
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Come Thursday night, at the Boston Park Plaza hotel, the 28-year old Mr. Myerson has enlisted 28 amateur boxers to fight three two-minute rounds apiece—separated, of course, by round-marking, placard-waving "ring girls"—all in the name of battling cancer.
Boxers Fighting Against Cancer Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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The tip-off has been heralded as a major intelligence coup, but the detainee's shifting loyalties to al Qaeda over the years also underscore the challenges in battling the group.
World Watch 2010
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Schumacher showed little interest in battling for a podium spot, however, driving defensively the rest of the way to keep Button behind him.
Mark Webber leads Red Bull to victory at F1's Spanish GP 2010
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But the detainee's shifting loyalties to al Qaeda over the years also underscore the challenges in battling the group.
Source of Bomb-Plot Tip-Off Is Named Margaret Coker 2010
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Come Thursday night, at the Boston Park Plaza hotel, the 28-year old Mr. Myerson has enlisted 28 amateur boxers to fight three two-minute rounds apiece—separated, of course, by round-marking, placard-waving "ring girls"—all in the name of battling cancer.
Boxers Fighting Against Cancer Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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