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fight back (third-person singular simple present fights back, present participle fighting back, simple past and past participle fought back)
- (intransitive) to defend oneself by fighting.
- (intransitive) to counterattack; to resist an attack.
- 2015 June 9, “Women’s World Cup 2015: England beaten by France in Group F opener”, in The Guardian (London)[1]:
- With Scott and the outstanding Claire Rafferty in particular fighting back, all was not lost.
- 2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, pages 54–55:
- The 1928 Royal Commission on Transport not only set some controls for the road haulage industry, it also gave the railway companies the opportunity to fight back.
- (transitive) to repress; to struggle to repress.
- She tried to fight back her laughter.
- (intransitive, in sports) to overturn a losing deficit.
Translations[edit]
to defend oneself by fighting
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to counterattack; to resist an attack
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to repress; to struggle to repress
sports: to overturn a losing deficit
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