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pitched battle
Word definitions for pitched battle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Battle \Bat"tle\, n. [OE. bataille, bataile, F. bataille battle, OF., battle, battalion, fr. L. battalia, battualia, the fighting and fencing exercises of soldiers and gladiators, fr. batuere to strike, beat. Cf. Battalia , 1st Battel , and see Batter , ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ All three companies are in a pitched battle over who invented the technology. ▪ Thirty students were injured in a pitched battle with police. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After a pitched battle , no less than 29 of the gang ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context military English) A hostile engagement involving sustained, full-scale fighting between opposing forces in close combat. 2 (context idiomatic by extension English) An intense, rancorous argument or confrontation.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pitched battle or set piece battle is a battle in which both sides choose the fighting location and time, and where either side has the option to disengage either before the battle starts, or shortly after the first armed exchanges. A pitched battle is ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place
Usage examples of pitched battle.
Picker and the others would later learn of the sudden and bloody pitched battle that occurred at the landings on the coast and on the shore of Catlin River.
I had learned the basics, but knitting for me was still a pitched battle with knotted thread and slippery needles, not the soothing, dreamy exercise that Jamie and Ian made of i, needles clicketing away in their big hands by the fire, comforting as the sound of crickets on the hearth.
Leonidas had not been seeking parataxis, a pitched battle, with the Antirhionians.
Anyway, there was a pitched battle, defeat, and exile for the Gray Lord.
The more Matrites we kill before we have to fight a pitched battle, the better.
The left flank, of course, as near to the desert as they can get without fighting an actual pitched battle with the Ye-tai.
If you cannot take fifteen shots a minute in a pitched battle, you will be of little use.
Korbolo Dom's army quickly recovered, reforming with as much precision as they could muster, and drove back the Khundryl after more than four hours of pitched battle.
The game was interrupted by a pitched battle - we were overrun, then driven back, then we retook the position, all of which consumed maybe a bell - and lo, someone had walked off with a two hundred pound table in the meantime!
The captain had left right after the failed ambush, for he realized they were unlikely to catch up to the elven raiders, much less engage them in pitched battle.
Sucking on his wounded thumb, the duke toyed in a disordered way with such thoughtsfor all Frekke's claims, Isgrimnur found it damnably hard to think about anything at all while he was carving: the knife and wood seemed at odds, in pitched battle that might elude his vigilance at any moment to slide over into tragedy.
In single combat the mightiest soldier of one army would fight the mightiest soldier of the other army as a substitute for a pitched battle between the entire forces.