Synonyms for fighting
fight·ing

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1. fight, fighting, combat, scrapadjective

   the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

   "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

   Synonyms:
   bit, flake, battle, fleck, conflict, rubbish, trash, fight, scrap, competitiveness, armed combat, combat, engagement, chip

   Antonyms:
   nonoperational, inactive

2. active, combat-ready, fighting(a)adjective

   engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

   "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces"

   Antonyms:
   inactive, nonoperational

Matched Categories

1. • Military

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1. spar

   it's literally what sparring is

   sparring is fighting

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. fightingnoun

   Synonyms:
   contention, strife, quarrel, warfare

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1. List of paraphrases for "fighting":

   combat, fight, combating, battles, battle, struggling, struggle, hostilities, warring, countering, battling, fighter, confrontation, fights, combatant, combatting, battlefield, strife, tackling, striving, war, counter, militancy, gunfight, infighting

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How to use fighting in a sentence?

1. Robert Smith:

   Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things.

2. Van Niekerk:

   She's fighting for something beyond just track and field, she's fighting for woman in sports, in society and I respect her for that, i will support her and with the hard work and talent that she's been putting into the sport. With what she believes in and what she's dreaming for, I've got a lot of respect for her.

3. Link Starbureiy:

   The battle of neuroplasticity - between neurogenesis versus neurodegeneration - is the the last great war, and the only real thing worth fighting for.

4. Jesse Hernandez:

   BOY, 13, FOUND ALIVE AFTER FALLING INTO LOS ANGELES DRAINAGE DITCH' MAZE' The children ran to the adults, who called 911 as Jesse was fighting to stay alive in the fast-moving sewage. Rescuers used cameras propped on flotation devices to locate the boy. They finally spotted handprints on a sewage pipe that eventually led them to Jesse’s location. The first thing they heard was' Help !' said Adel Hagekhalil, assistant general manager of the sanitation department. Adel Hagekhalil caught onto the hose and was reeled back up.

5. Jessica Poh-Janrell from CONCORD Sweden:

   Continuing investment in fighting poverty and inequality in developing countries is ultimately the most sustainable way of dealing with the crisis in the long term.