What does fight back mean?

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fight back

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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.

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  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. Donald Trump:

    We're all together and we want to get along with everybody, but when they have organized, professionally staged wise guys we've got to fight back, we've got to fight back.

  2. Miss Mandy:

    This is the kind of thing that makes me proud to be from the South, we are getting tired of being told to sit down and shut up. People are ready to fight back.

  3. Ram Singh:

    When being raped, Leslee Udwin shouldn't fight back, then they'd have dropped Leslee Udwin off after' doing Leslee Udwin'.

  4. 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.

  5. State John Kerry:

    I spoke to Foreign Minister Lavrov again today, we both believe that we have an understanding of the direction we are going in and what needs to be achieved and our teams will meet shortly and we are going to continue to do that in order to bolster the cessation of hostilities and in order to increase our capacity to fight back against al Qaeda, which is Nusra, as well as fight back against ISIL.

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