Synonyms

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2. assault, attack, offensive, onslaught; rush, blitz, blitzkrieg, storming, Fr. coup de main, Obs. brunt; bombardment, strafing, air raid, peppering, salvo, fusillade, Both Mil. barrage, enfilade, Navy, broadside; raid, foray, sortie, sally, invasion, aggression, incursion, escalade; siege, besiegement, besetment, investment.
3. argument, debate, discussion, polemic, logomachy, war of words; contestation, disputation, argumentation; disagreement, contention, altercation, dispute, controversy, discord; quarrel, row, squabble, dustup, spat, tiff, Brit. Dial, fratch, Brit. Dial, fratching; dissension, variance, difference of opinion, wrangling^ bickering.

-v. 4. contend, clash, conflict with, struggle, encounter, engage, meet; fight, give or do battle, combat, duel, joust, tussle, scuffle; brawl, feud, come to blows; war, make war, war against, go to war; pommel, beat, beat into the ground, batter; slaughter, massacre.
5. contest, confront, rise up against, resist, rail against, ride against; tourney, compete against.
6. assault, attack, raid, storm, charge, rush, blitz; set upon, pounce upon, open fire upon, begin hostilities, SI. let [s.o.] have it, SI. lay into, Archaic, insult.
7. argue, dispute, disagree, controvert, spar, cross swords, lock horns; wrangle, bicker, haggle, SI. hassle, Scot. argle-bargle, Scot. sturt, Scot. and North Eng. threap, Scot. and North Eng. prig; quibble, cavil, nit-pick, pettifog, belabor a point, split hairs.

battle cry, n. 1. war whoop, war cry, Geronimo, cry of attack; yell, shout, cheer, rah.
2. slogan, motto, byword, catchword, catch phrase, buzz word, red flag, trigger word; watch word, shibboleth, pet phrase; expression, saying.

battlefield, n. battleground, arena. Mil. field, theater, theater of war, theater of operations, Mil. combat zone, no man's land; battle line, battlefront, Mil. front, Mil. and Navy, battle station.

battlement, n. 1. wall, rampart, circumvallation, Fort, breastwork, Fort, contravallation; railing, balustrade, Fort, parapet, fence, palisade, Fort, stockade; outworks, Fort, ravelin, redoubt, Fort, redan.
2. stronghold, fastness, keep, donjon; bastion, fortification, fort, fortress, citadel, garrison.

battleship, n. warship, war vessel, man-of-war, floating fortress, ship of the line, destroyer, gunboat; cruiser, battle cruiser, Inf. battle wagon, corvette, Naut. monitor; dreadnought, superdreadnought, ironclad, frigate, sloop of war; torpedo boat, submarine, submersible, U-boat, submarine chaser; carrier, U.S. Navy Inf. flattop.

bauble, n. ornament, tinsel, clinquant, spangle, Inf. doodad; trifle, trinket, bagatelle, knickknack, gim-crack, gewgaw, toy, piece of junk.

bawdy, adj. 1. obscene, pornographic, vulgar, filthy, dirty, smutty, SI. raunchy, scatalogical; gross, crude, coarse; indecent, ribald, risque, off-color, lewd; shameless, immodest, indecorous, unseemly, improper, indelicate, rude.
2. lustful, concupiscent, ruttish, carnal, voluptuous, bestial; salacious, libidinous, lascivious, prurient, lecherous, Archaic, lickerish; licentious, dissolute, unchaste, wanton, immoral, impure.