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Fight back

//faɪt bæk// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To defend oneself by fighting. intransitive

    "The bully hadn't been expecting his victim to fight back, and now the bully has quadriplegia."

  2. 2
    fight against or resist strongly wordnet
  3. 3
    To defend oneself by fighting.; To counterattack (counterstrike); to resist an attack or respond after one. intransitive

    "During the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. Navy began fighting back, and it wouldn't stop until August 1945."

  4. 4
    defend oneself wordnet
  5. 5
    to repress; to struggle to repress. transitive

    "fight back tears"

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  1. 6
    To overturn a losing deficit. intransitive

Etymology

From fight and back.

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