battling adjective 3noun 4forms 3 adjective3 •Engaged in battle. •Nourishing; fattening. •Fertile. noun4 •Engagement in combat, fighting; struggling. •Struggling to make a life; doing it hard.We felt sorry for the old pioneer, after a life-time of hard battling. — 1937 •A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening. •That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil. formsbattlings · more battling · most battling