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fight fires

fight fires verb: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fight, fire.

Verb

fight fires (third-person singular simple present fights fires, present participle fighting fires, simple past and past participle fought fires)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fight, fire.
  2. (idiomatic) To deal with urgent matters and minor emergencies rather than longer-term work.
    • I spent all of Monday fighting fires and didn't get a single thing done on my project.

Forms of fight fires

third-person singular presentfights fires
present participlefighting fires
past participlefought fires
pastfought fires

Questions about fight fires

What does fight fires mean?
Fight fires means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fight, fire.
What part of speech is fight fires?
Fight fires is a verb.
What is the past tense of fight fires?
The past tense of fight fires is fought fires.

Words near fight fires in the dictionary

  1. fight choreography
  2. fight cocum
  3. fight dirty
  4. fight down
  5. fight fire with fire
  6. fight fires
  7. fight for one's life
  8. fight IQ
  9. fight IQs
  10. fight it out
  11. fight like a married couple

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