What does fight back mean?

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fight back

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word fight back.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. fight backverb

    defend oneself

  2. fight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defendverb

    fight against or resist strongly

    "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!"

Wiktionary

  1. fight backverb

    to defend oneself by fighting.

  2. fight backverb

    to overturn a losing deficit.

ChatGPT

  1. fight back

    Fight back generally means to defend oneself or retaliate against someone or something threatening or challenging, using physical, verbal, or other means. It can also refer to taking action or measures to resist or counteract a difficult situation or adversity.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fight back in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fight back in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of fight back in a Sentence

  1. Bernie Sanders:

    It strikes me that if you don't take part in the political process, you're really crapping on people who gave their lives to defend this country, WWII and elsewhere, obviously, this country faces enormous problems ... but that doesn't mean you walk away from it. But it means you engage and fight back.

  2. Charlie Cytron-Walker:

    When you are unable to run away or find a hiding place, you need to find a way to act and to fight back, when we were most afraid he was going to kill us, I saw a moment I had been looking for all day long.

  3. Bernie Sanders:

    To my mind, what we have got to do is wage a political revolution where millions of people who have given up on the political process stand up and fight back, demand a government that represents us and not just a handful of campaign contributions, contributors.

  4. Manny Garcia:

    Because of this unprecedented amount of energy, the energy of Beto leading our ticket, the energy of folks wanting to fight back against Donald Trump…we have really impressive candidates up and down the ballot.

  5. Michael Elleman:

    The Saudi objectives in Yemen appear more about standing up to Iran and showing that it will fight back if it tries to expand its influence in the Arab world.

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