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pitched battle
noun
- a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
- an encounter in which the antagonists are completely and intensely engaged:
The dispute evolved into a pitched battle between management and labor.
pitched battle
noun
- a battle ensuing from the deliberate choice of time and place, engaging all the planned resources
- any fierce encounter, esp one with large numbers
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pitched battle1
Example Sentences
Albro’s Ebell frescoes were indeed bright and modern — having been created in the style recently popularized by Rivera — and, like many great works of art throughout the ages, her creations sparked a pitched battle.
King Hussein, father to Abdullah, fought a pitched battle against the Palestinian Liberation Organization that led to the group’s ouster from the country in 1970.
I was recently shown footage by police at a local gendarmerie of what looked like another pitched battle on a beach at dawn, with riot-shielded police defending themselves against a hail of rocks.
The Houthis, who started out as anti-government rebels, had spent years in pitched battles with the Yemeni state; in 2014 they overran the capital, Sanaa, then put their sights on the rest of the country.
In the first pitched battle of the civil war that shaped a newly independent Ireland, seven centuries of history burned.
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