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fight windmills

fight windmills verb: synonym of tilt at windmills.

Verb

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

  1. Synonym of tilt at windmills.
    • But even if the moral costs do not concern you, then be concerned with the financial costs; the billions we are all paying to fight windmills.2025 January 19, Heba Gowayed, “The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Synonyms of fight windmills

Forms of fight windmills

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

Questions about fight windmills

What does fight windmills mean?
Fight windmills means synonym of tilt at windmills.
What part of speech is fight windmills?
Fight windmills is a verb.
What is the past tense of fight windmills?
The past tense of fight windmills is fought windmills.

Words near fight windmills in the dictionary

  1. fight the tape
  2. fight the tiger
  3. fight to the death
  4. fight to the finish
  5. fight up
  6. fight windmills
  7. fight-or-flight
  8. fightability
  9. fightable
  10. fightah
  11. fightahs

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