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Fighting

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Main Entry: fight
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: engage in physical encounter

Synonyms:

altercate, assault, attack, bandy with, battle, bear arms, bicker, box, brawl, brush with, buck, carry on war, challenge, clash, contend, cross swords, dispute, do battle, duel, exchange blows, feud, flare up, go to war, grapple, joust, meet, mix it up, oppugn, ply weapons, protect, quarrel, repel, resist, rowdy, scrap, scuffle, skirmish, spar, strive, struggle, take all comers, take the field, take up the gauntlet, tiff, tilt, traverse, tug, tussle, wage war, war, withstand, wrangle, wrestle

Antonyms:

agree, make peace, surrender, yield
Main Entry: fight
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: oppose action, belief

Synonyms:

argue, bicker, buck*, buckle down, carry on, combat, conduct, contest, continue, defy, dispute, effect, endure, engage in, exert oneself, fall out, force, further, hammer away, hassle, lay into, light into, maintain, make a stand against, oppose, persevere, persist, prosecute, push forward, put up an argument, repel, resist, row, spare no effort, squabble, stand up to, strive, struggle, support, take on, take pains, tangle with, toil on, travail, traverse, uphold, wage, withstand, wrangle

Antonyms:

agree, believe, support, uphold
Main Entry: fighting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aggressive, warlike

Synonyms:

angry, argumentative, battling, bellicose, belligerent, boxing, brawling, combative, contending, contentious, determined, disputatious, disputative, fencing, ferocious, hawkish, hostile, jingoistic, jousting, martial, militant, militaristic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ready to fight, resolute, scrappy, skirmishing, sparring, tilting, truculent, unbeatable, under arms, up in arms, warmongering, wrestling

Antonyms:

peaceloving
Main Entry: fighting
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: battle, encounter

Synonyms:

argument, battle royal, beef, bloodshed, blowup, bout, brannigan, brawling, brush, combat, conflict, contention, dispute, donnybrook, exchange, flap, fracas, free-for-all, go, hassle, hell broke loose, hostility, joust, match, melee, mix, punch out, riot, roughhouse, row, rowdy, rumble, rumpus, run-in, scramble, scrap*, scrimmage, scuffle, set-to, spat, strife, struggle, tiff, war, warfare, words, wrangle

Antonyms:

ceasefire, peace, surrender
Main Entry: action
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an aggressive military deed

Synonyms:

battle, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, skirmish, warfare
Main Entry: battle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: military fight

Synonyms:

action, assault, attack, barrage, blitzkreig, bloodshed, bombing, brush, campaign, carnage, clash, combat, conflict, contention, crusade, encounter, engagement, fighting, fray, havoc, hostility, onset, onslaught, press, ravage, scrimmage, significant contact, skirmish, sortie, strife, struggle, war, warfare

Antonyms:

truce
Main Entry: belligerent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nasty, argumentative

Synonyms:

aggressive, antagonistic, ardent, at loggerheads, battling, bellicose, cantankerous, combative, contentious, fierce, fighting, flip, have a bone to pick, have chip on shoulder, have it in for, hostile, hot, hot-tempered, mean, militant, on the outs, ornery, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike
Notes: bellicose orients 'prone to fighting' toward an individual while belligerent refers to an organized body, a national or political entity - a person is bellicose, a nation is belligerent

Antonyms:

cooperative, helping, kind, nice
Main Entry: bicker
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: nastily argue

Synonyms:

altercate, brawl, caterwaul, cause a scene, cavil, dig, disagree, dispute, fall out, fight, hassle, pick at, quarrel, quibble, row, scrap, scrape, spar, spat, squabble, tiff, trade zingers, wrangle

Antonyms:

agree, concede, discuss
Main Entry: buck
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: resist, kick off

Synonyms:

bound, combat, contest, dislodge, dispute, duel, fight, jerk, jump, leap, oppose, prance, repel, start, throw, traverse, trip, unseat, vault, withstand
Main Entry: combat
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fight

Synonyms:

battle, buck, clash, contend, contest, cope, cross swords with, defy, dispute, do battle with, duel, engage, fight, go up against, oppose, put up a fight, repel, resist, shoot it out, strive, struggle, traverse, war, withstand

Antonyms:

agree, compromise, retreat, run, surrender
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