fighting

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Apt to provoke a fight.

   It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.

2. 2
   noun

   A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight

   Then here the warres end, here our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard.

3. 3
   noun

   the act of fighting

4. 4
   adj

   engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

5. 5
   adj

   Engaged in war or other conflict.

6. 6
   verb

   present participle and gerund of fight

7. 7
   noun

   The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.

Etymology

From Middle English feghtyng, fyȝtynge, fightand, feghtand, feghtande, feightand, feȝtand, viȝtinde, feihtende, from Old English feohtende, from Proto-Germanic *fehtandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, struggle, contend with”), equivalent to fight + -ing.