fight back (English, verb)
expansion: fight back (third-person singular simple present fights back, present participle fighting back, simple past and past participle fought back)
Senses:
glosses: To defend oneself by fighting.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To defend oneself by fighting.
To counterattack (counterstrike); to resist an attack or respond after one.
tags: intransitive
glosses: to repress; to struggle to repress.
tags: transitive
glosses: To overturn a losing deficit.
tags: intransitive
raw_tags: in sports
Forms:
form: fights back
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fighting back
tags: participle
present
form: fought back
tags: participle
past
form: fought back
tags: past