fighting
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- Reino Unido//ˈfaɪ.tɪŋ//
- Canadá//ˈfaɪ.tɪŋ//
- Canadá/[ˈfaɪ.ɾɪŋ]/
- //ˈfʌɪ.tɪŋ//
- /[ˈfʌɪ.ɾɪŋ]/
Engaged in war or other conflict.
adjetivo
- 1
Engaged in war or other conflict.
- 2
Apt to provoke a fight.
It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
Them's fighting words in my country!
Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.
Etimologia
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.
verbo
- 1
Também uma forma de fightpresent participle and gerund of fight
substantivo
- 1
The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
- 2
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.
Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks.
A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly.
Etimologia
From Middle English fightyng, fightynge, fiȝtinge, feȝtyng, from Old English fihtung (“fighting”), equivalent to fight + -ing.
Formas
- plural
- fightings
fighting · Engaged in war or other conflict.
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