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Fight Off

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Verb

1. drive back, fight off, rebuff, repel, repulse

force or drive back

Example Sentences:
'repel the attacker'
'fight off the onslaught'
'rebuff the attack'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Fight Off

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verb (tr, adverb)
1. 
to repulse; repel
2. 
to struggle to avoid or repress
to fight off a cold

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Fight Off

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to struggle to avoid

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Fight Off

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v. fought(fôt), fight·ing, fights
v. intr.
1.
a. To attempt to harm or gain power over an adversary by blows or with weapons.
b. Sports To engage in a boxing match or other similar contest.
2. To engage in a quarrel; argue: They are always fighting about money.
3. To strive vigorously and resolutely, as in trying to overcome something; contend: fought against graft; fighting for her rights. See Synonyms at oppose.
v. tr.
1.
a. To contend with or oppose with violence or in battle.
b. To wage or carry on (a battle).
c. To contend for, as by combat: “I now resolved that Calais should be fought to the death” (Winston S. Churchill).
2.
a. Sports To take part in a boxing match or other similar contest with (an opponent).
b. To participate in (a boxing match or other similar contest).
c. To cause (a boxer or other contestant) to fight in a match.
3.
a. To contend with or struggle against: fought his boss over every penny; fought temptation.
b. To try to prevent the development or success of: fought the attempt to close the school.
c. To try to extinguish (an uncontrolled fire).
4. To make (one's way) by struggle or striving: fought my way to the top.
n.
1. A confrontation between opposing groups in which each attempts to harm or gain power over the other, as with bodily force or weapons.
2. A physical conflict between two or more individuals.
3. Sports
a. A boxing match.
b. A contest in kickboxing, any of the mixed martial arts, or a similar sport.
4. A quarrel or conflict: newlyweds having a fight over chores.
5. A struggle to achieve an objective: a fight for the attainment of civil rights.
6. The power or inclination to fight; pugnacity: I just didn't have any fight left in me.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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