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Fight off   /faɪt ɔf/   Listen
Fight off

verb
1.
Force or drive back.  Synonyms: drive back, rebuff, repel, repulse.  "Fight off the onslaught" , "Rebuff the attack"





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"Fight off" Quotes from Famous Books



... exactly promise. You see, I like to 'wrastle' with things and fight off the worst. Though I hadn't much hope of 'Lisbeth when the doctor said her spine was hurt. That's a kind of queer hidden thing that even doctors can't see into. And the poor creature suffered a good deal. My, but she was spunky and was bound not to die, and I fought for her all I could. But ...
— A Little Girl in Old Salem • Amanda Minnie Douglas
 
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... accidents had suddenly ceased since he began to board his own men at the mine and, while his lawyer stalled and haggled to fight off an injunction, he rushed his ore to the railroad. It was too precious to ship loose, for at eighty-four dollars a unit it was worth over four dollars a pound; he sent it out sacked, with an armed guard on each truck to see that it was delivered and receipted for. As the checks came ...
— Shadow Mountain • Dane Coolidge
 
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... by sea or land[1] Kallikratidas only counted for one, but as a general, he combined in his own person the strength of all the rest, so that he by whose death so many perished, was indeed more than one. A better answer was that of old Antigonus, who, as he was about to begin a sea-fight off Andros, some one having said that the enemy's fleet was the more numerous, asked, "And for how many do you count me?"—setting a high value, as is due, upon a skilful and brave leader, whose first duty is to keep safe him who preserves ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long
 
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Words linked to "Fight off" :   defend, fight back, rebuff, fight, drive back, oppose, fight down



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