a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
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fight
the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"
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war
the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"
