noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fighting chance (= a small but real chance )
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The Republican Party has a fighting chance at the next election.
be fighting for your life (= be so ill or injured that you might die )
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One badly burned man was fighting for his life in hospital.
extreme fighting
fighting fit British English (= very fit )
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I had just come back from holiday and was fighting fit.
fire fighting
hand-to-hand fighting/combat etc
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There was fierce hand-to-hand fighting in the streets of the city.
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They were defeated in hand-to-hand combat.
Heavy fighting
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Heavy fighting was reported near the border.
ultimate fighting
violence/fighting spreads
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There is no indication that the violence is likely to spread.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bitter
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Most of the city was aflame, and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs.
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Most of the refugees had come from the Kurgan-Tyube region, the scene of bitter fighting between pro- and anti- government forces.
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The war was all but over, although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades.
fierce
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He said fierce fighting was taking place near Bahdu and insisted I would need at least a hundred soldiers if I went there.
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Fighting in Kabul Fierce fighting between various groups raged in Kabul on Dec. 6-10.
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On the following day there was fierce fighting at the television station and the building was partially destroyed by fire.
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There was fierce hand-to-hand fighting and the area was coming under heavy tank and artillery shelling.
heavy
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Tass still reported heavy fighting around Bagram on March 8.
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But the storm was over; and on land it was on this day that heavy fighting started at Thermopylai.
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In the countryside where up to 1,000 people die of starvation a day, heavy fighting between rival clans was reported.
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On Dec. 20 government forces took Karfarnihan after three days of heavy fighting .
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The Soviet War continues. Heavy fighting in the Caucasus despite bad weather conditions.
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In Maydan Shar on Aug. 17, 100 Kabul militiamen were reportedly killed in heavy fighting with mujaheddin forces.
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Down below me there was heavy fighting and I felt very sad.
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Casualty figures are low, indicating that neither side is prepared to engage in heavy fighting .
serious
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At this stage aggression is still highly ritualised, but if one animal fails to submit then serious fighting can occur.
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On the following day there were further protests but a heavy police presence prevented renewed outbreaks of serious fighting .
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A ceasefire came into operation in May and all serious fighting stopped.
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In the spring of A.D. 66, serious fighting broke out in Caesarea.
■ NOUN
fire
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The tugs were built primarily for service at the Braefoot Bay Terminal and are fully fitted for fire fighting and pollution control.
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Most countries have a paid, professional fire brigade who are expert in fire fighting .
■ VERB
continue
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Indeed, while the parties are anxious to continue with the fighting such steps are unlikely to lead to peace.
kill
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Some 17 people had been killed in the fighting .
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At least 1,200 people have been killed in recent fighting .
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The Emperor Sigismund is killed in the fighting .
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By the end of November an estimated 1,000 civilians had been killed in the latest fighting and up to 6,000 injured.
report
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It followed a week in which more than 120 people were reported killed in township fighting .
stop
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I have already stated my view of the best way to stop the fighting .
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Those Yugoslav republics which want independence will get it, but recognition now would not stop the fighting .
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Lord Owen said the two had agreed to stop or limit the fighting .
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Macaulay, 12, star of the blockbuster Home Alone movies, would play a nine-year-old whose parents never stop fighting .
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Swiftly they drove south and were stopped only after desperate fighting round the Griffon Gate.
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But they establish the framework within which peace could be created if the parties wished to stop the fighting .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fighting fit
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Consequently, it hosts an excellent wild brown trout population and fish are pink-fleshed and fighting fit, averaging 10oz in weight.
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Masie had responded brilliantly to treatment and seemed fighting fit.
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She was taken in by Maggie Taylor and now five month old Teka is fighting fit and lapping up all the attention.
fighting spirit
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I admire the team's fighting spirit.
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After a long time, her fighting spirit gradually revived and she began to think constructively.
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Although these patients usually have astonishingly good morale and fighting spirit, everything humanely possible should be done to keep it up.
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Do you suppose he has to carry on a campaign of propaganda to get his people into fighting spirit?
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Fortunately, though, we had a fighting spirit which helped us pull through.
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On the battlefield armament was still much less important than discipline and fighting spirit.
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She also has a fighting spirit.
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We shall have to match his fighting spirit, and not let our fear overwhelm us before the first blow is struck.
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With so many enemies, we need a great deal of fighting spirit.
fighting words/talk
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And we need to warn them that the words they are using can very easily become fighting words.
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It sounds like good fighting talk but, beyond the active birth arena, I wonder how accurate a picture it represents.
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Today in the 1980s many Christians don't like this fighting talk.
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Where I come from that's fighting talk.
have a fighting chance
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All children must have a fighting chance at a good education.
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And that has encouraged the Geordies to believe they still have a fighting chance of keeping him.
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Central defender Tony Mowbray believes his former team have a fighting chance at Old Trafford.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fighting between rival gangs resulted in the death of a teenage boy.
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Fighting broke out between English and Dutch football fans after the game.
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Some 15,000 people have fled the city, following renewed fighting .
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The streets of the capital are now quiet again, after three weeks of heavy fighting .
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The UN had failed to stop the fighting in Rwanda.
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There was fighting on the streets of Paris yesterday when police and demonstrators clashed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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End of a school Many teachers were displaced in the fighting .
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His war had been worth fighting , much as she regretted the admission.
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In Maydan Shar on Aug. 17, 100 Kabul militiamen were reportedly killed in heavy fighting with mujaheddin forces.
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On Feb. 19, Aoun and Geaga agreed a six-point pact to end the fighting .
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The match was marred by first-half fighting and 15 penalties against the Lions in the second half.
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These were set in motion once fighting began and were kept in effect despite falls in prices.
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They are quarrelsome, politically unstable and poor; some are preoccupied with fighting .
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They include captive monsters goaded into fighting and monsters which have been magically bound by spells of obedience.