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Webster 1913 Edition


Fighting

Fight′ing

,
Adj.
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
(Zool.)
,
the fiddler crab.
Fighting fish
(Zool.)
,
a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (
Betta pugnax
), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fighting

FIGHTING

, ppr.
1.
Contending in battle; striving for victory or conquest.
2.
a. Qualified for war; fit for battle.
A host of fighting men. 2Chron. 26.
3.
Occupied in war; being the scene of war; as a fighting field.

FIGHTING

,
Noun.
Contention; strife; quarrel.
Without were fightings, within were fears. 2Cor. 7.

Definition 2024


fighting

fighting

English

Verb

fighting

  1. present participle of fight

Derived terms

Adjective

fighting

  1. Engaged in war or other conflict.
  2. Apt to provoke a fight.
    • 1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26:
      It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
    • 1947, Hold That Lion! (film):
      Them's fighting words in my country!
    • 2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 1576752372, page xi:
      Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fighting (plural fightings)

  1. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
    • 1613, “The Costlie Whore”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
      Then here the warres end, here[206] our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard.
    • 1840, Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History:
      Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks.
    • 1860, John Yeardley, Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel:
      A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly.

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