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Fighting   /fˈaɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Fighting

noun
1.
The act of fighting; any contest or struggle.  Synonyms: combat, fight, scrap.  "There was fighting in the streets" , "The unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
adjective
1.
Engaged in or ready for military or naval operations.  Synonyms: active, combat-ready.  "The platoon is combat-ready" , "Review the fighting forces"



Fight

verb
(past & past part. fought; pres. part. fighting)
1.
Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight.  Synonyms: contend, struggle.  "Siblings are always fighting" , "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"
2.
Fight against or resist strongly.  Synonyms: defend, fight back, fight down, oppose.  "Don't fight it!"
3.
Make a strenuous or labored effort.  Synonym: struggle.  "He fought for breath"
4.
Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for.  Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, press, push.  "She is crusading for women's rights" , "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate"



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"Fighting" Quotes from Famous Books



... industrious, fight for the South if they be young, and talk for the South morning, noon, and night, in spite of General Dix and his columbiads on Federal Hill. It is in vain to say that such men and women have no strong feeling on the matter, and that they are praying, working, fighting, and talking under dictation. Their hearts are in it. And judging from them, even though there were no other evidence from which to judge, I have no doubt that a similar feeling is strong through all the seceding States. On this subject the North, I think, deceives itself in supposing ...
— Volume 2 • Anthony Trollope

... you think that in the face of coming to England and fighting here, and plotting here, and being, may be, an earl's countess, I have not made Martin Lightfoot teach me your English tongue, till I can speak it as well as you? I kept that hidden as a surprise for you, that you might find out, when you most ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley

... do so? Because they knew the cost to them. Those hunters and rangers were used to the Indian method of fighting. If the redskins could approach nigh enough to fire before detection, there would be enough white men left to make many of them bite the dust ere they could get beyond ...
— The Phantom of the River • Edward S. Ellis

... know that I am naturally Brave, and love Fighting as well as any Man in England. This gallant Temper of mine makes me extremely delighted with Battles on the Stage. I give you this Trouble to complain to you, that Nicolini refused to gratifie me in that Part of the Opera ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... subject, yet the absolute excellencies of her nuns and priests showed that Romanism as such was not fatal to spirituality. They were persecuted: this did them good perhaps, or certainly exhibited their brightness. So too my brother surely was struggling after truth, fighting for freedom to his own heart and mind, against church articles and stagnancy of thought. For this he deserved both sympathy and love: but I, alas! had not known and seen his excellence. But now God had taught me more largeness by bitter sorrow working the peaceable fruit of righteousness; ...
— Phases of Faith - Passages from the History of My Creed • Francis William Newman


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