Synonyms for fighting
fight·ing

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1. fight, fighting, combat, scrapadjective

   the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

   "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

   Synonyms:
   bit, flake, battle, fleck, conflict, rubbish, trash, fight, scrap, competitiveness, armed combat, combat, engagement, chip

   Antonyms:
   nonoperational, inactive

2. active, combat-ready, fighting(a)adjective

   engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

   "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces"

   Antonyms:
   inactive, nonoperational

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1. • Military

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1. spar

   it's literally what sparring is

   sparring is fighting

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. fightingnoun

   Synonyms:
   contention, strife, quarrel, warfare

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1. List of paraphrases for "fighting":

   combat, fight, combating, battles, battle, struggling, struggle, hostilities, warring, countering, battling, fighter, confrontation, fights, combatant, combatting, battlefield, strife, tackling, striving, war, counter, militancy, gunfight, infighting

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1. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

   Has any historian sought to question why the wagonmaster of America's westward-bound pioneers 'circled' the wagons instead of 'squaring' or 'triangulating' them for a better defense strategy in fighting-off Indian raids on the plains:

2. Fuad Mohammed Ali Marhabi:

   That was our war. It was against the Houthis. Now we are fighting them again.

3. Phoebe Waller-Bridge:

   I hope this filmed performance of' Fleabag' can help raise money while providing a little theatrical entertainment in these isolated times, thank you to all our partners and to the creative team who have waived their royalties from this production to raise money for such vital causes in this unbelievably challenging situation. All money raised will support the people throughout our society who are fighting for us on the frontlines and those financially devastated by the crisis, including those in the theatre community.

4. Vidulfo Rosales:

   Parents are not going to accept the hypothesis before us. It is not a conclusive, final investigation. The investigation needs to be open, so that there will be the full truth that the parents are fighting for. We make several petitions that we find this truth.

5. Rahm Emanuel:

   Chicago will not be blackmailed into changing our values, and we are and will remain a welcoming city, the federal government should be working with cities to provide necessary resources to improve public safety, not concocting new schemes to reduce our crime-fighting resources.