fight
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(noun) a boxing match; "the fight was on television last night" |
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Synonyms: bout |
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Related Words: boxing, fisticuffs, pugilism |
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(verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other;" "Siblings are always fighting" |
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Synonyms: struggle |
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Related Words: assail, attack, bandy, battle, bear down, box, chicken fight, combat, defend, duel, engage, fence, feud, fight, fight back, fight down, fistfight, get back, join battle, joust, oppose, scuffle, settle, skirmish, spar, struggle, tourney, tug, tussle, wage, war |
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(verb) fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill" |
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Synonyms: defend, fight back, fight down, oppose |
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Related Words: drive back, drive off, fight, fight off, hold out, rebuff, repel, repulse, resist, stand, stand firm, struggle, withstand |
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(noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets" |
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Synonyms: combat, fighting |
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Related Words: affaire d'honneur, affray, banging, battering, battle, beating, brawl, brush, clash, conflict, cut-and-thrust, disturbance, duel, encounter, fencing, fistfight, fisticuffs, fray, free-for-all, gang fight, gunfight, gunplay, hassle, impact, in-fighting, knife fight, rough-and-tumble, ruffle, rumble, scuffle, set-to, shock, shootout, skirmish, slugfest, snickersnee, struggle, swordplay, tussle, whipping |
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(verb) make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath" |
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Synonyms: struggle |
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Related Words: assay, attempt, drive, essay, flounder, labor, labour, push, seek, try, tug |
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(noun) an intense verbal dispute; "a violent fight over the bill is expected in the Senate" |
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Related Words: conflict, difference, difference of opinion, dispute |
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(verb) engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; "She is crusading for women's rights" |
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Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, push |
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Related Words: advertize, promote, push |
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(noun) an aggressive willingness to compete; "the team was full of fight" |
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Synonyms: competitiveness |
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Related Words: aggressiveness |
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(noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "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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Synonyms: battle, conflict, engagement |
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Related Words: Armageddon, Battle of Britain, Drogheda, action, armed combat, assault, combat, military action, naval battle, pitched battle |
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