English
Pronunciation
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Adjective
fighting
- engaged in war or other conflict
- apt to provoke a fight
#*1925 April 11, "Books", in w:The New Yorker|The New Yorker, page 26,
#*:It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
#*1947, w:Hold That Lion!|Hold That Lion! (film),
#*:Them's fighting words in my country!
#*2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 1576752372, page xi,
#*:Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.
Translations
trans-top|engaged in a fight
Finnish: taisteleva
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Verb
fighting
- present participle of|fight
Derived terms
fighting chance
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