Fight Off

Definition: Fight Off

Fight Off

Verb

1. Force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack".

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

Synonyms: Fight Off

Crosswords: Fight Off

Health

Sometimes the body needs help to be able to fight off a disease. (references)

Antibodies are proteins made by the immune system to fight off bacteria and viruses. (references)

When the immune system is working normally, it creates antibodies to fight off germs. (references)

Economic History

Italy

Complex cross-shareholding has been used to fight off takeover attempts in the financial sector, but this has not been directed at takeovers by foreign companies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

zmbraps (beat off, check, drive back, foil, hold off, repel, repulse, turn), ndal (arrest, becalm, check, close up, cut, discontinue, end, fold, halt, heave to, hold, interrupt, pull in, pull up, rein up, shut down, stay, stem, stop), kapërcej (bypass, climb over, cross, exceed, get over, go one better than, hop, lap, leap, leave out, miss out, outdo, overbalance, overcome, overmaster, overpower, span, surmount, transcend, turn, vault). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صد (alienation, baffle, balk, baulk, bear down, beat, beat off, blast, estop, estoppel, exclusion, fend, fend off, hit, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push aside, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stave, stay, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отблъсквам (avert, beat off, counter, drive back, estrange, foil, head off, jar, press back, push away, push back, put off, rebuff, reject, repulse, resist, spurn, stave off, throw back, thrust aside, turn off, ward), надвивам (drub, fight down, overbear, overpower, overwhelm, pip, thrash, vanquish, worst). (various references)

Czech

zahnat (drive, drive away, hush, quench, repel, sate, satiate, still), přemáhat, odrazit (beat, beat off, fend, fend off, force back, hold off, intercept, push off, rebut, repel, repulse, return, ricochet, shove off, strike back, throw back, ward off). (various references)

Finnish

hosua pois jotakin. (various references)

French

repousser, résister. (various references)

German

erfolgreich bekämpfen, ankämpfen gegen (battle with, fight), abwehren (avert, beat off, clear, discourage, dismiss, fend, fend off, field, hold off, keep away, make a save, parry, protect against, repel, repulse, stave off, to fend, to parry, to stave off, ward off). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�"וף (bear down, beat off, blast, fend off, hold off, jolt, push, repel, repulse, shove, stave off, ward off). (various references)

Hungarian

visszaszorít (drive back, repel, to confine, to roll back), betegséget leküzd. (various references)

Italian

scacciare qd. (various references)

Manx

caggey rish (fight, row). (various references)

Pig Latin

ightfay offay

Portuguese

lutar contra o relógio. (various references)

Russian 

отогнать, отбить (recapture). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odbiti (cast aside, counter, decline, deduct, deny, disallow, dock, drive back, fend off, keep off, knock off, overrule, parry, rebuff, reflect, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, stave off, strike up, throw back, turn away, turn back, turn down, ward off, wean). (various references)

Spanish

rechazar (ban, beat back, beat off, defeat, deny, deprecate, disallow, disavow, discard, disclaim, discourage, dismiss, disown, drive back, fend, fend off, hand off, hold off, negative, overrule, Parry, pass up, press back, push back, put aside, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, say no to, scout, set aside, Spike, spurn, stave off, stem, throw back, throw out, thrust aside, turn away, turn down, vote down, vote out, ward off, wave aside, wave away). (various references)

Swedish

slå tillbaka (beat off, hit back, repel, repulse, strike back), kämpa ner. (various references)

Turkish

defetmek (banish, beat off, dispel, drive away, fence off, fend off, pack, pack off, repel, send smb. packing, send to the rightabout, stave off, turn away, vamoose, vamose). (various references)

Ukranian 

відбити. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: fifth, fight.

-4 letters: gift, thio, tiff, toff.

-5 letters: fig, fit, fog, foh, ghi, git, got, hit, hog, hot, iff, off, oft, tho, tog.

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