fighting

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of taking part in a physical or armed struggle.

   The fighting in the city lasted for several days.

2. 2
   adj

   Involved in or ready for war or conflict.

   Fresh fighting troops were sent to the front.

3. 3
   adj

   Likely to start a fight or argument.

   Those were fighting words, and he knew it.

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.

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