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fightingverbpresent participle of fight to oppose (someone) in physical conflicta proud people who have fiercely fought all invaders of their homeland battling, clashing (with), combating(or combatting), scrimmaging (with), skirmishing (with), warring (against) dueling(or duelling), joustingbanging, bashing, battering, batting, beating, belting, bludgeoning, bopping, buffeting, clobbering, hammering, hitting, knocking, pasting, pounding, punching, slamming, slapping, slogging, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, striking, swatting, swiping, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whalingboxing, sparringbrawlinggrappling, scuffling, tussling, wrestlingbumping, colliding giving up, submitting, surrendering to strive to reduce or eliminatea civil rights leader who dedicated his life to fighting prejudice battling, combating(or combatting), contending (with), countering, opposing, oppugning baffling, checkmating, foiling, frustrating, resisting, thwarting, withstandingconfronting, defying, facing, meeting advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting abiding, bearing, enduring, sufferingadvocating, backing, championing, endorsing(also indorsing), supporting, upholding to engage in a contesteveryone on that street seems to be fighting to see who can create the gaudiest holiday lighting display battling, competing, contending, facing off, racing, rivaling(or rivalling), vying challenging, engaging, playingjockeying, jostling, maneuveringgoing out, trying outtraining, working to express different opinions about something often angrilyif you kids continue to fight, I'm turning this car around and we're heading back home! altercating, argufying, arguing, bickering, brabbling, brawling, controverting, disputing, falling out, hassling, jarring, quarreling(or quarrelling), quibbling, rowing, scrapping, spatting, squabbling, tiffing, wrangling challenging, daring, defyingclashing, contending, contesting, tanglingcaviling(or cavilling), fussing, nitpickingconsidering, debating, discussingkicking, objecting, protesting bandying words, butting heads, locking horns, mixing it up coexisting, getting alongaccepting, agreeing, assenting, concurring, consenting to refuse to give in toI tried to fight the temptation to eat another cookie—and lost bucking, defying, opposing, repelling, resisting, withstanding battling, combating(or combatting), contending (with)challenging, contesting, contradicting, disputingbaffling, balking, foiling, frustrating, thwartingchecking, countering, hindering, obstructing, stemming bowing (to), capitulating (to), giving in (to), knuckling under (to), stooping (to), submitting (to), succumbing (to), surrendering (to), yielding (to) in the 14th century |