fighting
UK/ˈfaɪ.tɪŋ//ˈfaɪ.tɪŋ/
fighting adjective: engaged in war or other conflict. Also the present participle and gerund of fight.
Adjective
fighting
Noun
fighting (countable and uncountable, plural fightings)
- The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
- A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
- Then here the warres end, here our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard.1613, “The Costlie Whore”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.
- Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks.1840, Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
Also used as
fighting is also the present participle and gerund of fight.
fighting meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Arabic
fighting in Tamil
- சண்டையிடுவது, சண்டையிடுதல்
fighting in Bengali
- লড়াই করে
fighting in Kannada
- ಹೋರಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ
fighting in Arabic
- the act or process of contending; violence or conflict
- صِرَاع ṣirāʕ
Examples of fighting in a sentence
- Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, →ISBN, page xi:
- A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly.1860, John Yeardley, Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel:
Forms of fighting
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Origin of fighting
From Middle English feghtyng, fyȝtynge, fightand, feghtand, feghtande, feightand, feȝtand, viȝtinde, feihtende, from Old English feohtende, from Proto-Germanic *fehtandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, struggle, contend with”), equivalent to fight + -ing.
From Middle English fightyng, fightynge, fiȝtinge, feȝtyng, from Old English fihtung (“fighting”), equivalent to fight + -ing.
Words formed from fighting
- Fighting Bob
- fighting chance
- fighting hole
- fighting little judge
- fightingly
- fighting word
- nonfighting
- unfighting
- antifighting
- armored combat fighting
- armored fighting vehicle
- armoured combat fighting
- armoured fighting vehicle
- bullfighting
- bushfighting
- cage fighting
- Chinese fighting stick
- cockfighting
- cock-fighting
- crimefighting
- fighting chair
- fighting cock
- fighting fish
- fighting fit
- fighting game
- fighting irons
- fighting spirit
- fighting stick
- fighting words
- firefighting
- fire fighting
- footfighting
- freedom fighting
- gunfighting
- infantry fighting vehicle
- infighting
- in fighting trim
- kite fighting
- shootfighting
- Siamese fighting fish
- snowfighting
- stickfighting
- stick-fighting
- stink fighting
- streetfighting
- street fighting
- sword fighting
- warfighting
- z-fighting
Phrases with fighting
- fighting up
- dog fighting
- fighting off
- fighting out
- fighting shy
- fighting back
- fighting down
- slap fighting
- fighting cocks
- fighting cocum
- fighting fires
- fighting games
34 more phrasesFewer phrases
- stick fighting
- fighting chairs
- fighting fishes
- fighting it out
- fighting sticks
- fighting chances
- fighting spirits
- go down fighting
- fighting the tiger
- fighting windmills
- goes down fighting
- gone down fighting
- went down fighting
- going down fighting
- fighting one's corner
- fighting to the death
- the girls are fighting
- Chinese fighting sticks
- fighting fire with fire
- fighting for one's life
- fighting one's guts out
- fighting the good fight
- Siamese fighting fishes
- fighting a losing battle
- armored fighting vehicles
- fighting like cat and dog
- live like a fighting cock
- armoured fighting vehicles
- infantry fighting vehicles
- fighting a rearguard action
- fighting like cats and dogs
- fighting like a married couple
- two bald men fighting over a comb
- fighting like an old married couple
Questions about fighting
- What does fighting mean?
- Fighting means engaged in war or other conflict.
- What is fighting in Tamil?
- Fighting in Tamil is சண்டையிடுவது, சண்டையிடுதல். See Fighting meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use fighting in a sentence?
- Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.
- What part of speech is fighting?
- Fighting can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce fighting?
- Fighting is pronounced /ˈfaɪ.tɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near fighting in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fighting (page history and authors); fighting (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fighting (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fighting (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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