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dogfight

UK/ˈdɒɡ.faɪt/[ˈdɔɡ.fʌɪt]

dogfight noun: a twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.

Noun

dogfight (plural dogfights)

  1. A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.
    • The two bi-planes swirled around each other like angry wasps in a violent dogfight.
  2. A fight between dogs, especially as part of the blood sport of dogfighting.

Verb

dogfight (third-person singular simple present dogfights, present participle dogfighting, simple past and past participle dogfought)

  1. To engage in a battle between fighter planes.
    • Missiles exhausted, the pilot was forced to close and dogfight with his opponent.

dogfight meaning in Urdu and Bengali

dogfight in Urdu

گھمسان کی لڑائی, سخت لڑائی

dogfight in Bengali

কুকুরদের মধ্যে লড়াই

Forms of dogfight

Noun
pluraldogfights
Verb
third-person singular presentdogfights
present participledogfighting
past participledogfought
pastdogfought

Plural of dogfight: dogfights

Origin of dogfight

From dog + fight.

Words formed from dogfight

Questions about dogfight

What does dogfight mean?
Dogfight means a twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.
What is dogfight in Urdu?
Dogfight in Urdu is گھمسان کی لڑائی, سخت لڑائی. See Dogfight meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is dogfight?
Dogfight can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce dogfight?
Dogfight is pronounced /ˈdɒɡ.faɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of dogfight?
The plural of dogfight is dogfights.

Words near dogfight in the dictionary

  1. dogfaces
  2. dogfall
  3. dogfalls
  4. dogfennel
  5. dogfennels
  6. dogfight
  7. dogfighter
  8. dogfighters
  9. dogfighting
  10. dogfights
  11. dogfish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogfight (page history and authors); dogfight (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dogfight (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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