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Fight Down

Definition: Fight Down

Fight Down

Verb

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Fight Down

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

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Crosswords: Fight Down

English words defined with "fight down": calm, calm down, chill out, cool it, cool offsettle down, simmer down. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fight down": INFALAPSARIANtope. (references)

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Modern Translations: Fight Down

Language Translations for "fight down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fitoj (carry off, come by, come into, command, earn, gain, gain upon, get, get the best of, make, net, obtain, outfight, overcome, overthrow, possess, profit, pull in, realize, score, score off, take, touch, win), ngadhënjej. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏طرد (banish, banishment, bounce, bouncer, cashier, cast out, chuck, deport, deportation, disgrace, dislodge, dismiss, dismissal, dispossess, dispossession, disqualification, drive out, drum, eject, ejection, eliminate, elimination, evaporate, evict, eviction, expel, expulsion, fence, get off, hunt, in order of the boot, oust, ouster, pitch, poke, put out, removal, remove, repel, rout, sack, scat, send, send packing, sending away, shake, shrift, sling out, spurn, throw out, toss, toss out, turf, turf out, turn away, turn off, turn out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

надвивам (drub, fight off, overbear, overpower, overwhelm, pip, thrash, vanquish, worst), побеждавам (beat, conquer, defeat, down, foil, have, lace, lick, master, mop up, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overthrow, overturn, pip, polish off, prevail, scupper, thrash, triumph, trounce, vanquish, whip, whop, win, worst, zap). (various references)

   

Czech

  

potlaèit (contain, cork up, crush, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, scotch, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, tame), přemoci (conquer, defeat, master, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate, reduce, stifle, surmount, swallow, vanquish). (various references)

   

French

  

refouler, réprimer. (various references)

   

German

  

unterdrücken (blanking, choke back, clamp down on, eliminate, fight back, 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), bezwingen (beat, capture, conquer, defeat, down, master, outfight, overcome, overmaster, quell, subdue, subjugate, submit, to conquer, to overmaster, to subjugate, vanquish). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"כא (aggrieve, oppress, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppress). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

leküzd (master, negotiate, overcome, surmount, tide over, to fight back, to fight down, to fight off, to surmount, to surmount to sg, to tide over, to vanquish, vanquish). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ightfay ownday

   

Russian 

  

победить (get the better, knock out, triumph, win, win through, worst), подавить (suppress). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

savladati (cope, defeat, master, overcome, overmaster, overmatch, overpower, scale, surmount, vanquish). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

reprimir (bridle, check, control, govern, keep back, put down, quash, quell, repress, restrain, rule, suppress). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

besegra (beat, best, checkmate, conquer, defeat, flog, hammer, knock out, lick, nobble, overcome, overwhelm, pip, vanquish, win over, worst). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

перемогти (draw the winner, get home, knock out, outclass, overcome, pip, prevail, sack, score off, shoot down, whip, worst). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fight Down

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-f-g-h-i-n-o-t-w"

-3 letters: doting, dowing, godwit, towing.

-4 letters: dhoti, dight, dingo, doing, fight, gonif, indow, ingot, night, ohing, owing, thing, thong, tigon, tondi, width, wight.

-5 letters: dhow, ding, dint, doit, dong, doth, down, fido, find, fino, fohn, foin, fond, font, gift, gowd, gown, hind, hint, hong, howf, info, into, nigh, nodi, nowt, thin, thio, ting, tong.

 Words containing the letters "d-f-g-h-i-n-o-t-w"
 

+3 letters: downshifting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fight Down


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 67 68 74      44 6F 77 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#119 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 0067 0068 0074      0044 006F 0077 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4075737486238818980

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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