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Synonyms for fight back
fight back
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Princeton's WordNet
fight backverb
defend oneself
Synonyms:
fight down, fight, oppose, defendfight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defendverb
fight against or resist strongly
"The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!"
Synonyms:
fight, play off, counterbalance, represent, agitate, champion, press, support, guard, hold, defend, campaign, oppose, struggle, match, react, pit, controvert, fend for, contradict, contend, maintain, fight down, crusade, push
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #148 | support | |
| #422 | press | |
| #1275 | hold | |
| #1536 | match | |
| #2171 | campaign | |
| #2422 | maintain | |
| #2575 | fight | |
| #2976 | represent | |
| #3541 | guard | |
| #3587 | push | |
| #4708 | champion | |
| #5905 | struggle | |
| #6977 | pit | |
| #7739 | defend | |
| #11376 | react | |
| #12242 | oppose | |
| #18225 | crusade | |
| #20325 | contend | |
| #27874 | contradict | |
| #67974 | counterbalance | |
| #86407 | agitate | |
| #269524 | controvert |
How to use fight back in a sentence?
Kansans and their health care providers are not Mr. Brownback's punching bag and we will fight back.
They're not going to keep stealing because we upped the security devices, we're a family business. The community has been very supportive for us and we believe that we're going to fight back. Not like they fight. We're going to fight back just by looking out for one another, being there for one another, and it's going to come to a stop. It's going to come to a stop.
To my mind, what we have got to do is wage a political revolution where millions of people who have given up on the political process stand up and fight back, demand a government that represents us and not just a handful of campaign contributions, contributors.
Chris Harrison stepped aside and allowed Chris Harrison to be canceled by it. Chris Harrison shouldn't have, chris Harrison should have forced them to fire Chris Harrison publicly and make a statement about it and then fight back against it. But instead Chris Harrison's OK with being canceled for pointing out a nuance of cancel culture, not for supporting what this woman did. That's the most ridiculous part of the whole thing.
Name one person who's been a bigger defender of the Iranian people to fight back against their oppressor.
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