Battle and Defy

Battle

Battle verb - To strive to reduce or eliminate.

Usage example: we must battle hunger and poverty wherever they exist

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Defy and battle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Defy" instead a verb "Battle".

Defy verb - To oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage.

Usage example: a rescue team willing to defy the raging storm

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Battle and defy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Battle" instead a verb "Defy".

Nearby Words: defied, defying

In Hellsing, his backstory is that instead of dying in battle, he was captured and to be executed, but chose to defy his fate and become a vampire instead.

Source: Really Seven Hundred Years Old / Anime and Manga
One big reason that the packs cannot defy the Greatwolves is because the Greatwolves are so much bigger and impossible for a normal wolf to defeat in battle.

Source: Literature / The Wolf Chronicles
Such confusion is only to be expected in a battle historian Paul Dull described as being "so chaotic as to almost defy description".

Source: Dated History

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