Word Finder - fighting

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To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

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A wounded animal will fight like a maniac, relentless, savage and murderous.

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To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.

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The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour.

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To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.

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He fought for the Democrats in the last election.

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To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).

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The battle was fought just over that hill.

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To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.

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My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II.

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To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.

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The government pledged to fight corruption.

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To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.

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to fight cocks; to fight one's ship

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Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.

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Engaged in war or other conflict.

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Apt to provoke a fight.

Is that what you and Dulce were fighting about?

Was he confused – alone and fighting a desire he detested?

Fighting a band of renegade Indians isn't half as hard as lassoing this little filly.

She hated his rules, but she wasn't fighting him.

How would you feel if I was fighting with my brother and wouldn't tell you what we were fighting about?

They were fighting over her.

I'm hoping that's Jerry, and I don't want him to hear you two fighting in the background.

You're still fighting it.

He lowered himself into a fighting stance.

Is that the mine those Dawkins boys were fighting over the other night?

We will discuss the molecular machines called nanites—tiny, molecular-sized robots that will swim around in your body fighting disease, repairing damage, and alerting you to problems (and will likely dramatically increase the human lifespan).

Though all seven were constantly fighting, Kris and Rhyn were always at each other's throats.

Or you wouldn't still be fighting for her.

His silence reminded her of a time when they were fighting.

You and Death fighting?

Daniela said this was what spurred their fighting.

That Kris could attack his brother.s mate but refuse to strong-arm his brothers into fighting demons made his anger boil.

The sounds of fighting from the direction of the castle made Jade sweat.

Sasha was armed with two daggers and lowered himself into a fighting stance.

I was fighting the demons.

Probably fighting over who stole whose cat when they were five.

They're fighting over a woman, and I really don't take to the way they do things here in that regard.

She finally turned to him, and by the set of her jaw he knew he was fighting a losing battle.

She forced her face to remain emotionless, her form still enough not to draw attention, like a wounded animal trying not to distract the hungry predators fighting over it.

Taran spent the night on the wall, fighting with the men who had treated him like a brother for a kingdom he wanted but would never have.

The demons swam within him, fighting for control of his body.

The fighting, no doubt, on the part of the wazir was conducted with all the savagery of Oriental warfare; but there is no evidence that it was a war of extermination.

There was no serious fighting.

It is his duty to act as regent; it is his duty to compose the dissensions in the principality of Antioch, and to repress the violences of the prince towards his patriarch (1154); it is his duty to reconcile Antioch with Edessa, when the two fall to fighting.

The king, realizing what street fighting in Florence would mean, at once came to terms; he contented himself with 120,000 florins, agreeing to assume the title of "Protector and Restorer of the liberty of Florence," and to give up the fortresses he had taken within two years, unless his expedition to Naples should be concluded sooner; the Medici were to remain banished, but the price on their heads was withdrawn.

The tribes which inhabit the western face of the Black Mountain are the Hassanzais (2300 fighting men), the Akazais (1165 fighting men) and the Chagarzais (4890 fighting men), all sub-sections of the Yusafzai Pathans.

In fact, it has become the equivalent of an order of knighthood, the members of which form a brotherhood bound by oath to succour each other at need and to refrain from fighting among themselves.

Based on conquest as the Aztec kingdom was, and with the most bloodthirsty religion the world ever saw, the nation was, above all, Wan a fighting community.

Gods are represented with their appropriate attributes - the fire-god hurling his spear, the moon-goddess with a shell, &c.; the scenes of human life are pictures of warriors fighting with club and spear, men paddling in canoes, women spinning and weaving, &c. An important step towards phonetic writing appears in the picture-names of places and persons.

That city was taken by General Scott after a siege and bombardment (March 7 to 29, 1847); and after winning the battle of Cerrogordo (April 18), and a long delay at Puebla, Scott marched on Mexico City, stormed its defences against greatly superior forces, and effected an entrance after severe fighting on the 13th of September 1847.

He was appointed in 1793 to a superior command in the army direct from civil life, and as a general of brigade he took part in the fighting of the 13th Vendemiaire.

There was fighting between Montsioa and Moshette, while Massow, a Batlapin chief, invited the aid of the Boers against Mankoroane, who claimed to be paramount chief of the Batlapin.

In his main object, the recovery of the southern states, Greene succeeded by the close of the year; but not without hard fighting and repeated reverses.

But neither the severe climate nor the neighbourhood of wild and warlike hillmen shook their faith, and in the course of half a century, in one of the most unhealthy and unfertile localities in the Caucasus, they transformed this wilderness into flourishing colonies, and continued to live a Christian and laborious life, making friends with, instead of fighting, the hillmen.

The Gaulish invaders appeared in Asia Minor in 278-277 B.C. They numbered 20,000, of which only one-half were fighting men, the rest being doubtless women and children; and not long after their arrival we find them divided into three tribes, Trocmi, Tolistobogii and Tectosages, each of which claimed a separate sphere of operations.

This legal capacity rendered them liable to military service as heavy-armed fighting men, and as such they were enrolled in the military units called centuriae.

The Sikh is a fighting man, and his best qualities are shown in the army, which is his natural profession.

Such cults have never prevented those who participated in them from fighting one another.

After some years of desultory fighting de Courci established his power over that part of Ulster comprised in the modern counties of Antrim and Down, throughout which he built a number of castles, where his vassals, known as "the barons of Ulster," held sway over the native tribes.

In Kufa and Basra were gathered representatives of all the Arabian tribes who formed the fighting force of the Islamic Empire, and from these al-Mufaddal was able to collect and record the compositions of the poets who had celebrated the fortunes and exploits of their forefathers.

The era was that of the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), and during that great upheaval England was sometimes fighting France.

The result was sharp fighting between English and French in a time of nominal peace.

The district became a centre of the fighting between the Gurkhas and the rebels, and was not finally cleared until October 1858 by Colonel Kelly.

The first prince was Tutush, mentioned above, who perished, after a reign of continuous fighting, in battle against Barkiyaroq near Rai (Rhagae) in 1095.

He was well educated, spent some years in travel and in fighting against France, and on account of his immense strength was known as "the Strong."