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Answer for the clue ""Sally, keep up the fight!" ", 11 letters:
battlefield

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Word definitions for battlefield in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields" [syn: battleground , field of battle , field of honor , field ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The field where a land battle is or was fought.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1812, from battle (n.) + field (n.). The usual word for it in Old English was wælstow , literally "slaughter-place."

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN war ▪ The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel - all pits and trenches - but dry. ■ VERB become ▪ Hundreds are injured as the streets of Berlin become a battlefield . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ...

Usage examples of battlefield.

There was a flat, lifeless quality about it that, without the verve of battlefield blood, spoke of tyranny most repellent and egregious, and yet at the same time petty and self-serving.

A conversation among the dead felt unseemly, but Aras knew that Ade Bennett had seen many battlefields and had learned to handle the horror.

I went to Adena, who was surveying the battlefield with a powerful pair of electronically boosted binoculars.

The Apennine mountains were to their left, and the Marine part of Brian looked at the hills and shuddered at the battlefield they represented.

She had been on foot, braced against the onslaught of the find legion, when the unborn foal had been raised by the Batavian murderers on the far side of the battlefield and word had passed, like fire in ripe corn, of the sacrilege.

At dawn she woke to hear birds calling, and it seemed, mixed with their note, she could hear the harsh screams of the kyorebni, still feeding on the waste of the battlefield.

He would have looked at home on a royal chariot, gripping the carved bonewood of a longbow, polished armor gleaming in the cold sunlight, contemplating the battlefields lay.

John Bravais is a kind of super-spy called on by an associate in Algeria to help investigate why soldiers are going missing from the battlefield.

After much exciting hounds-and-fox action on Earth, Bravais is himself eventually harvested, waking as a cybernetic tank on a lunar battlefield.

Our masters do not permit us barbarians to injure a citizen of Rome even though he may be from Castra Sanguinarius, except in self-defense or upon the battlefield in time of war.

Pincushion stars glowed incandescent, fanned by the bellows of the unexpected shang wind and Riachadh na Catha, the ancient Battlefield of Kings, awoke.

The helicopters had to do some fancy footwork to avoid the erratic maneuvers of the pilotless Bronco as it pulled into a series of chandelles and lazy-eights over the battlefield.

They had stopped at the battlefield of Culloden and after that they had branched off on to the road to Grantown-on-Spey, but soon left it for a narrow road from Balloch which crossed the River Nairn and brought them within reach of the three Clava cairns.

Treaty of Paris ended the Crimean War, soldiers continued to trickle home from the Black Sea battlefields.

He took comfort in knowing that he had done his duty well, and that his expedition to the peaks east of the battlefield had helped to turn the tide of the raging conflictat least enough so that Banak Brawnanvil had managed to get the great majority of dwarves down the cliff face and safely into Mithral Hall ahead of the advancing orc horde.