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fighting Synonyms

fighting

modif.

combative, battling, warring, brawling, determined, resolute, striving, contentious, disputatious, under arms, argumentative, angry, ferocious, quarrelsome, ready to fight, ripe for a fight, bellicose, belligerent, militant, boxing, wrestling, sparring, fencing, jousting, skirmishing, tilting, pugnacious, warlike, contending, at war, in the thick of the fray, like cats and dogs*, at the point of the bayonet*, in the cannon's mouth*, up in arms*, at swords' points*.

Antonyms peaceful*, peaceable, meek.

fighting Synonyms

fighting

n.

combat, struggle, strife; see fight 1.

fighting Quotes

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilitiesitentailsisfighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

—James, Henry

The damned whores the moment that they got below fell a fighting amongst one and another and Capt Meridith order the Sergt. notto partthem butto letthem fight it out. See Chisholme 213:16.

—Clark, Ralph

When you're fighting, you're fighting for one thingömoney.

—Dempsey, (William Harrison) Jack

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

—Mitchell, Margaret

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.

—Dryden,John

The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desparate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.

—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

   Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel- picking, murder, homicide, and agreateffusionof blood, as daily experiences teaches.

—Stubbes, Philip

He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.

—Rochdale

When the war in Spain is over I shall have to find something else: the Italian character has to be formed through fighting.

—Mussolini, Benito also called Il Duce [the Leader]

The most important thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking partöjust as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

—Coubertin, Pierre de, Baron

Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

—Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

   Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

—Harrison,Tony

   When we, the Workers, all demand: What are WE fighting for? Then we'll end that stupid crime, that devil's madnessöWar.

—Service, Robert William

What istheuse offighting for thevoteif we donot havea country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved womento enduretorture inprison for thenational good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.

—Pankhurst, Emmeline ne¤  e  Goulden

In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting, He led his regiment from behindö He found it less exciting. But when away his regiment ran, His place was at the fore,Oö That celebrated, Cultivated Underrated Nobleman, The Duke of Plaza-Toro!

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

   And life is colour and warmth and light And a striving evermore for these; And he is dead, who will not fight; And who dies fighting has increase.

—Grenfell,Julian Henry Francis

Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts. It will come to you, this love of the land.

—Mitchell, Margaret