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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. Andy Herber:

    He had just no ability to fight off anything.

  2. Emily Chapman:

    By and large our children have very active and responsive immune systems, and so we suspect that smaller doses of vaccine will trigger an adequate response in a child to successfully fight off infection.

  3. Frank Lipman:

    These foods are high in antioxidants, which support the body’s ability to fight off toxins.

  4. Alyannah Buhman:

    I get sick really easily, i can not fight off anything to save my life. I start puking everywhere. It's a terrifying thought.

  5. Elizabeth Novak:

    I just want to tell you what happens when I get to work, i have to clean up the poop and the pee off of my doorstep. I have to clean up the syringes. I have to fight off people that push their way into my shop that are homeless and on drugs because you wont arrest them for drug offenses. I have to apologize to my clients. So I want to know what youre going to do for us, the ones that are unhappy.


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  • खदेड़ देनाHindi

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