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Fighting Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Fighting? [n] the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets" [adj] disposed to loud disagreements and fighting [adj] engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Fighting: belligerent \| brawling \| combat \| disorderly \| fight \| militant \| unpeaceful \| war-ridden \| warring Related Terms \| Find terms related to Fighting: aggressive \| all-out war \| altercation \| antagonistic \| appeal to arms \| argument \| armed combat \| armed conflict \| attack \| battle \| battling \| bellicose \| belligerence \| belligerency \| belligerent \| bickering \| bloodshed \| bloodthirsty \| bloody \| bloody-minded \| bout \| boxing \| boxing match \| cat-and-dog life \| chauvinist \| chauvinistic \| Chinese boxing \| close fighting \| combat \| combative \| conflict \| contending \| contention \| contentious \| contentiousness \| contest \| contestant \| contestation \| contesting \| controversy \| cut and thrust \| debate \| disputant \| disputation \| dispute \| enemy \| enmity \| ferocious \| fierce \| fisticuffs \| full of fight \| hawkish \| hostile \| hostilities \| hostility \| hot war \| infighting \| inimical \| jingo \| jingoish \| jingoist \| jingoistic \| Kilkenny cats \| la guerre \| litigation \| logomachy \| martial \| might of arms \| militant \| militaristic \| military \| military operations \| offensive \| open hostilities \| open war \| paper war \| polemic \| prizefight \| prizefighting \| pugilism \| pugnacious \| quarrel \| quarreling \| quarrelsome \| quarrelsomeness \| resort to arms \| saber-rattling \| sanguinary \| sanguineous \| savage \| savate \| scrapping \| scrappy \| shadowboxing \| shooting war \| soldierlike \| soldierly \| spar \| squabbling \| state of war \| strife \| striving \| struggle \| struggling \| the clinches \| the fights \| the ring \| the sword \| total war \| trigger-happy \| truculent \| unfriendly \| unpacific \| unpeaceable \| unpeaceful \| war \| war of words \| warfare \| warlike \| warmaking \| warmongering \| warring \| wartime \| words \| wrangling See Also \| affaire d'honneur \| affray \| banging \| battering \| battle \| beating \| blow \| brawl \| brush \| clash \| conflict \| cut-and-thrust \| disturbance \| dogfight \| duel \| encounter \| fencing \| fistfight \| fisticuffs \| fray \| free-for-all \| gang fight \| gunfight \| gunplay \| hassle \| impact \| in-fighting \| knife fight \| rough-and-tumble \| ruffle \| rumble \| scuffle \| set-to \| shock \| shootout \| skirmish \| slugfest \| snickersnee \| struggle \| swordplay \| tussle \| whipping Fighting In Webster's Dictionary \Fight"ing\, a. 1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. --2 Chron. xxvi. 11. 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. --Pope. {A fighting chance}, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.] {Fighting crab} (Zo["o]l.), the fiddler crab. {Fighting fish} (Zo["o]l.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish ({Betta pugnax}), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.

Fighting Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fighting?

[n] the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"
[adj] disposed to loud disagreements and fighting
[adj] engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war"

Fighting In Webster's Dictionary

\Fight"ing\, a.
1. Qualified for war; fit for battle.

         An host of fighting men.              --2 Chron.
                                               xxvi. 11.

2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a
   fighting field. --Pope.

{A fighting chance}, one dependent upon the issue of a
   struggle. [Colloq.]

{Fighting crab} (Zo["o]l.), the fiddler crab.

{Fighting fish} (Zo["o]l.), a remarkably pugnacious East
   Indian fish ({Betta pugnax}), reared by the Siamese for
   spectacular fish fights.

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