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fights windmills

fights windmills is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 fights windmills

What is fights windmills the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fights windmills is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fight windmills.

Words near fights windmills in the dictionary

  1. fights the good fight
  2. fights the tiger
  3. fights to the death
  4. fights to the finish
  5. fights up
  6. fights windmills
  7. fightsome
  8. fightwite
  9. fightworthy
  10. fighty
  11. figitid

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