fighting

fighting
fighting [adj] aggressive, warlike angry, argumentative, battling, bellicose, belligerent, boxing, brawling, combative, contending, contentious, determined, disputatious, disputative, fencing, ferocious, hawkish, hostile, jingoistic, jousting, martial, militant, militaristic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ready to fight, resolute, scrappy, skirmishing, sparring, tilting, truculent, unbeatable, under arms*, up in arms*, warmongering, wrestling; concept 401 —Ant. peaceloving fighting [n] battle, encounter argument, battle royal*, beef*, bloodshed, blowup, bout, brannigan, brawling, brush, combat, conflict, contention, dispute, donnybrook*, exchange, flap*, fracas, free-for-all*, go, hassle, hell broke loose*, hostility, joust, match, melee, mix, punch out*, riot, roughhouse*, row, rowdy, rumble, rumpus, run-in*, scramble, scrap*, scrimmage, scuffle, set-to*, spat, strife, struggle, tiff, war, warfare, words, wrangle; concept 106 —Ant. ceasefire, peace, surrender

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  • Fighting — Fight ing, a. 1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. [1913 Webster] An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11. [1913 Webster] 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. [1913 Webster] {A fighting chance}, one… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fighting — ou Combats de rue au Québec (Fighting) est un film américain réalisé par Dito Montiel en 2009 et sorti le 24 juin 2009. Sommaire 1 Synopsis 2 Fiche technique 3 Distribu …   Wikipédia en Français

  • fighting — prp. of FIGHT (Cf. fight) (v.). Fighting chance is from 1877; fighting mad is attested by 1750 …   Etymology dictionary

  • fighting — index belligerency, conflict, litigious, offensive (taking the initiative), pugnacious, strife Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • fighting — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ bitter, fierce, hard, heavy, intense, serious ▪ bloody ▪ continued …   Collocations dictionary

  • fighting — n. 1) to step up the fighting 2) bitter, fierce, hard, heavy; hand to hand fighting 3) clean; dirty fighting 4) street fighting 5) fighting breaks out; rages * * * [ faɪtɪŋ] dirty fighting fierce hand to hand fighting hard heavy …   Combinatory dictionary

  • Fighting — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel Fighting Produktionsland USA …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • fighting */*/ — UK [ˈfaɪtɪŋ] / US noun [uncountable] 1) a situation in which people hit, kick, or bite each other fighting between: There was fighting between rival fans after the match. fighting breaks out (= starts): The police were called in as fighting broke …   English dictionary

  • fighting — I noun the act of fighting; any contest or struggle (Freq. 25) a fight broke out at the hockey game there was fighting in the streets the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap • Syn: ↑fight, ↑combat, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • fighting — fight|ing [ˈfaıtıŋ] n [U] when people or groups fight each other in a war, in the street etc fighting between ▪ heavy fighting between government and rebel forces ▪ Fighting broke out in the crowds …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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