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fight off

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. repel, repulse, fight off, rebuff, drive backverb

    force or drive back

    "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"

Wiktionary

  1. fight offverb

    To succeed in defeating a challenge, or an attack.

  2. fight offverb

    To resist, particularly an infection or an emotion.

ChatGPT

  1. fight off

    To fight off is to resist or defend oneself against something such as an attack, illness, or an unwanted situation or problem. It can be either in a physical situation like a person fighting off an attacker, or metaphorically like fighting off a cold, or any negative feelings or thoughts.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fight off in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fight off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of fight off in a Sentence

  1. Eugene Tan:

    Evans was Mr China back when he was at Goldman, for a Westerner he was regarded as knowing how the country works and he'll be a useful face for Alibaba to fight off negative sentiments as they try and break into the U.S. market.

  2. Robert Eitches:

    The stronger your baseline health, the stronger your body will be to fight off infections, it's like having the appropriate ammunition to fight a war.

  3. Jaime Mass:

    If the whey is processed carefully and at low temperatures, it will contain naturally occurring immunoglobulins and lactoferrin, lactoferrin is actually a component of the immune system, supporting our overall immune health and helping us to fight off infections.

  4. Maria Liston:

    This injury may also explain why Philip, a skilled warrior, was so utterly unable to fight off the assassins, with this knee, he would have limited mobility and very poor balance.

  5. Connie Lehman:

    It incites an immune response by the body that is necessary to fight off the Covid-19 virus, should it enter a person's body, so these enlarged lymph nodes are evidence that the vaccine is doing exactly what our bodies need it to do.


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  • खदेड़ देनाHindi

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