fightback
fightback noun: a campaign of resistance; a counterattack.
Noun
fightback (plural fightbacks)
- A campaign of resistance; a counterattack.
- The gay movement is in retreat as evidenced in the rise of anti-gay attacks and and ^([sic]) the success of anti-gay legislation. One only needs to read the Gay Community News to realize the severity of the anti-gay offensive. The fightback to this anti-gay offensive has been weak and disoriented....1981 December 12, Steve Rose, “Some People's Congress”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 4
- Stosur gave hope of a fightback when she smashed through Dementieva's serve in the first game of the second set.2009 January 25, Bruce Matthews, “Brave Sam Stosur wilts under Elena Dementieva”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2012
fightback meaning in Malayalam
fightback in Malayalam
- counterattack, counter-offensive, rally
- ചെറുത്തുനില്പ്, പ്രത്യാക്രമണം, തിരിച്ചടിക്കൽ, പ്രതിരോധം, നിരോധം, മീൾ
Examples of fightback in a sentence
- The fightback to this anti-gay offensive has been weak and disoriented.1981 December 12, Steve Rose, “Some People's Congress”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 4:
- Liverpool resisted a second-half fightback from Wolves to secure a hard-fought victory and end a run of back-to-back Premier League defeats.2011 September 24, Arindam Rej, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2022:
- A second-half fightback to draw with the USA offered a hope that swiftly evaporated following a gut-wrenching 2-0 loss to Iran only four days later.2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”...
Forms of fightback
| plural | fightbacks |
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Origin of fightback
From fight + back, as a deverbal from fight back.
Questions about fightback
- What does fightback mean?
- Fightback means a campaign of resistance; a counterattack.
- What is fightback in Malayalam?
- Fightback in Malayalam is ചെറുത്തുനില്പ്, പ്രത്യാക്രമണം, തിരിച്ചടിക്കൽ. See Fightback meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use fightback in a sentence?
- The fightback to this anti-gay offensive has been weak and disoriented.
- What part of speech is fightback?
- Fightback is a noun.
- What is the plural of fightback?
- The plural of fightback is fightbacks.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fightback (page history and authors); fightback (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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