Usually means: Intense, prolonged fight between armies.
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  1. pitched battle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pitched battle: Merriam-Webster
  3. pitched battle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pitched battle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pitched battle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pitched battle: Vocabulary.com
  7. pitched battle: Wordnik
  8. pitched battle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pitched battle: Wiktionary
  10. pitched battle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pitched battle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pitched battle, pitched battle: Dictionary.com
  13. Pitched battle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pitched battle: Rhymezone
  15. pitched battle: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pitched battle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pitched battle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pitched battle)

noun:  (military) A battle which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; a sustained, intense and confrontational fight.
noun:  (by extension) An intense, rancorous argument or confrontation.

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