Fighting

Verb
fighting

Derived terms

 * fighting chance

Adjective
fighting


 * 1) engaged in war or other conflict
 * 2) apt to provoke a fight
 * 3) *1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26,
 * It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
 * 1) *1947, Hold That Lion! (film),
 * Them's fighting words in my country!
 * 1) *2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 1576752372, page xi,
 * Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.

Noun

 * 1) A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight

Descendants

 * Korean: 화이팅 (hwaiting)

Thesaurus
Chinese boxing, Kilkenny cats, aggressive, all-out war, altercation, antagonistic, appeal to arms, argument, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, battling, bellicose, belligerence, belligerency, belligerent, bickering, bloodshed, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bout, boxing, boxing match, cat-and-dog life, chauvinist, chauvinistic, close fighting, combat, combative, conflict, contending, contention, contentious, contentiousness, contest, contestant, contestation, contesting, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, disputant, disputation, dispute, enemy, enmity, ferocious, fierce, fisticuffs, full of fight, hawkish, hostile, hostilities, hostility, hot war, infighting, inimical, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, la guerre, litigation, logomachy, martial, might of arms, militant, militaristic, military, military operations, offensive, open hostilities, open war, paper war, polemic, prizefight, prizefighting, pugilism, pugnacious, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsome, quarrelsomeness, resort to arms, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, savate, scrapping, scrappy, shadowboxing, shooting war, soldierlike, soldierly, spar, squabbling, state of war, strife, striving, struggle, struggling, the clinches, the fights, the ring, the sword, total war, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, war, war of words, warfare, warlike, warmaking, warmongering, warring, wartime, words, wrangling

Adjective

 * Finnish:


 * Polish: walczący, wojujący,  bijący się