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fighting

[fahy-ting]

adjective

  1. fit to fight.

    a boxer who's no longer in fighting shape.

  2. tending or meant to stir up a fight or hostility.

    fighting words.

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Other Word Forms

  • unfighting adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fighting1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English; fight + -ing 2
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With the fighting, the weapons and the robberies came incarceration.

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When Melvin Graves returned from fighting in Vietnam, he got no parade, he said, so this was as close as he would come to one.

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More RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East amid intense fighting between Israel and Iran, the prime minister has said.

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It reminds me that everyone is fighting a battle none of us can see.

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" we are fighting for and yearning for is justice - prosecutions for those responsible. We deserve that."

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