[ noun ]
■ a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
e.g.)
・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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battle
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conflict
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engagement
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fight
[ noun ]
■ the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
e.g.)
・thousands of people were killed in the war
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war
,
warfare
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