Fight Back

Definitions: Fight Back

Fight Back

Verb

1. Defend oneself.

2. Fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!".

Synonyms: Fight Back

Synonyms: defend (v), fight (v), fight down (v), oppose (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Fight Back

English words defined with "fight back": dissent ♦ protest ♦ Re-, resist. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fight back": Field of the Forty Footsteps, fuk chek ♦ Hills ♦ Merlo ♦ ROOSEVELT. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Fight Back with David Horowitz (1976)
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Domain	Title
Books	Fired, Down-Sized, or Laid-Off: What Your Employer Doesn't Want You to Know About How to Fight Back (reference) Fight Back and Win: How to Get Hmo's and Health Insurance to Pay Up (reference) Obsession: The Fbi's Legendary Profiler Probes the Psyches of Killers, Rapists and Stalkers and Their Victims and Tells How to Fight Back (reference) Private Planet: Corporate Plunder and the Fight Back (reference) Fight Back & Win: What to Do When You Feel Cheated or Wronged (reference) (more book examples)
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	3rd World women : we cannot live without our lives : we will fight back!.Credit: Library of Congress.		Stop nuclear test boring : fight back : let's bore Westminster.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The shingles attack may last longer than chickenpox, and the patient may need medication for pain, but in most cases the body has the inner resources to fight back. The lesions heal, the pain subsides within 3 to 5 weeks, and for most patients the blisters leave no scars. (references)
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Language		Translations for "fight back"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		съпротивлявам се (resist). (various references)

Chinese		回�"� (counterattack, return fire). (various references)

Czech		postavit se na odpor, bránit se (hold back, offer resistance). (various references)

German		zurückschlagen (beat back, beat off, beatback, flare back, fold back, hit back, kick, kickback, knock away, knock back, leaf back, pull back, repel, repulse, retaliate, return, roll back, strike back, swing back, to repulse, to strike back, turn down), zurückkämpfen, zu kräften kommen, zu besiegen versuchen, widerstand leisten (resist, to offer resistance, to offer resistence), unterdrücken (blanking, choke back, clamp down on, eliminate, fight down, hold back, hold down, hold under, inhibit, keep back, keep down, oppress, put down, quash, quell, repress, restrain, shut out, sit on, suppress, throttle, to eliminate, to oppress, to repress, to suppress), sich wehren (bridle, defend oneself, fend, fight, resist, strike back, struggle, to bridle), sich verteidigen (conduct one's own defence, defend oneself, fend). (various references)

Hungarian		védekezik (be on the defensive, defend, defend oneself, protect oneself, to be on the defensive, to stand mute of malice, to stand on the defensive), véd (defend, fence, protect, shelter, stand for, to armor, to armour, to cover, to fence, to justify, to save, to shelter, to shield, to ward). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		涙塞き敢えず (unable to fight back tears). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なみ� せきあえず (unable to fight back tears). (various references)

Pig Latin		ightfay ackbay

Russian		оказывать сопротивление (dispute, offer resistance, rebel, resist, stick up for, stick up to). (various references)

Turkish		karşı koymak (bear against, confront, contest, counter, counteract, counterwork, demur, dispute, face, face up to, fend, offer resistance, oppugn, refuse, resist, set against, stand, stand out, stand out against, stand up to, stick up to, withstand), direnmek (hold out, hold up, jib, jib at doing, make a stand for, offer resistance, persevere, refuse, resist, stand, stand out, stand out against, stick up to, withstand). (various references)

Ukranian		чинити опір (breast, counter, kick against, oppose, recalcitrate, revolt, stand against). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adversor, repugnandum, repugnant, repugnantem, repugnare, repugnet. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-f-g-h-i-k-t"
	-2 letters: backfit.
	-3 letters: bhakti.
	-4 letters: aitch, baith, batch, batik, bight, bitch, faith, fight, fitch, habit, thack, thick.
	-5 letters: bach, back, baht, bait, bath, chat, chia, chit, fact, fiat, gait, ghat, gift, hack, haft, haik, hick, ikat, itch, kaif, khaf, khat, kith, tach, tack, tick.
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