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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fight \fight\ fimact, v. i. imp.  p. p. fought
   faddt; p. pr.  vb. n. fighting. oe. fihten, fehten,
   as. feohtan; akin to d. vechten, ohg. fehtan, g. fechten, sw.
   faumkta, dan. fegte, and perh. to e. fist; cf. l. pugnare
   to fight, pugnus fist.
   1. to strive or contened for victory, with armies or in
      single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an
      enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; --
      followed by with or against.
      1913 webster

            you do fight against your country's foes. --shak.
      1913 webster

            to fight with thee no man of arms will deign.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to
      contend; to strive; to make resistance.
      1913 webster

   to fight shy, to avoid meeting fairly or at close quarters;
      to keep out of reach.
      1913 webster
see also:
fought fighting to fight shy 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 dependent upon the issue of a
      struggle. colloq.

   fighting crab zool., the fiddler crab.

   fighting fish zool., a remarkably pugnacious east indian
      fish betta pugnax, reared by the siamese for
      spectacular fish fights.
      1913 webster
see also:
a fighting chance fighting crab fighting fish betta pugnax 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
fighting
     adj 1: engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on
            active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review
            the fighting forces" syn: active, combat-ready, fightinga
     2: engaged in war; "belligerent or warring nations"; "a
        fighting war" syn: belligerent, militant, war-ridden,
         warring
     3: disposed to loud disagreements and fighting syn: brawling
     n : the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "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, scrap
see also:
active combat-ready fightinga belligerent militant war-ridden 
warring brawling fight combat scrap 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
125 moby thesaurus words for "fighting":
   chinese boxing, kilkenny cats, 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, 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,
   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





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