DO BATTLE

Opposition

Stem, breast, encounter; stem the tide, breast the tide, stem the current, stem the flood; buffet the waves; beat up against, make head against; grapple with; kick against the pricks; (resist); contend; do battle; (warfare) -with, do battle against.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: DO BATTLE

I have read that there is a place where warriors do battle in Jell-O. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "DO BATTLE": do battle against ♦ do battle with. Additional references.

Czech

vést s kým spor (do battle with). (various references)

Hungarian

hadakozik vkiért (to do battle for sy), hadakozik vki ellen (to do battle against sy). (various references)

Pig Latin

oday attlebay

Spanish

librar batalla. (various references)

Turkish

çarpışmak (bump, cannon, clash, collide, combat, come into collision, encounter, knock together, skirmish). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: battled, blatted, bloated, blotted, bottled, lobated, totable, totaled.

-2 letters: albedo, batted, battle, boated, boatel, bolted, bottle, doable, dottel, dottle, lobate, lotted, oblate, tabled, tablet.

-3 letters: abode, adobe, baled, bated, betta, blade, blate, bleat, bloat, botel, datto, dealt, delta, dobla, dotal, lated, latte, lobed, lotte, table, toled, total, toted.

-4 letters: abed, abet, able, aloe, alto.

+2 letters: outbleated, subtotaled.

+3 letters: detonatable, obliterated, subtotalled, tolbutamide.

+4 letters: battleground, debilitation, detonability, flutterboard, tolbutamides.

+5 letters: battlegrounds, debilitations, diabetologist, flutterboards.