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fighting windmills

fighting windmills is the present participle and gerund of fight windmills.

Meaning of fight 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

Questions about fighting windmills

What is fighting windmills the present participle and gerund of?
Fighting windmills is the present participle and gerund of fight windmills.

Words near fighting windmills in the dictionary

  1. fighting sticks
  2. fighting the good fight
  3. fighting the tiger
  4. fighting to the death
  5. fighting up
  6. fighting windmills
  7. fighting word
  8. fighting words
  9. fighting-fit
  10. fightingest
  11. fightingly

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