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pitched battle

noun

  1. a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
  2. 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

  1. a battle ensuing from the deliberate choice of time and place, engaging all the planned resources
  2. any fierce encounter, esp one with large numbers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of pitched battle1

First recorded in 1600–10
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In the first pitched battle of the civil war that shaped a newly independent Ireland, seven centuries of history burned.

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