fighting

/ˈfʌɪtɪŋ/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈfʌɪtɪŋ/

fighting

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

fig - hting -> fighting

Myanmar meaning

(n) ရန်ပွဲ၊ တိုက်ပွဲ။

Full entry

fight / faÇt / v (pt, pp fought /fↄ:t/)

၁။ သတ်ပုတ်သည်။ တိုက်ခိုက်သည်။ ထိုးသတ်သည်။ ထွေးလုံးသတ်ပုတ်သည်။
soldiers training to fight ❍ Do stop fighting, boys! He always fights to win (ie tries his hardest to win). ❍ She'll fight like a tiger to protect her children. ❍ The two dogs were fighting over a bone. ❍ Britain fought with / alongside (ie on the same side as) France against Germany in the last war. ❍ Have you been fighting with (ie against) your brother again? ❍ Though heavily outnumbered they fought on bravely. ❍ He fought many opponents throughout his boxing career.
၂။ တိုက်ပွဲဝင်သည်။ ၊ ပြိုင်ပွဲဝင်သည်။ စစ်ထိုးသည်။ fight a war / a duel / an election campaign ❍ The government has to fight several by elections in the coming months.
၃။ ~ (against) sth တွန်းလှန် တိုက်ခိုက်သည်။ (မီး) ငြိမ်းသတ် သည်။ ဆန့်ကျင်သည်။ fight (against) disease / poverty / oppression / ignorance ❍ fight a fire ❍ We will fight the decision vigorously.
၄။ ~ (about / over sth) ငြင်းခုံသည်။ စောဒကတက်သည်။ It's a trivial matter and not worth fighting about.
n
၁။ [C] ထွေးလုံးသတ်ပုတ် ထိုးခုတ် ကိုက်ဖဲ့ခြင်း (သို့) ယှဉ်ပြိုင်ထိုးသတ်ခြင်း (သို့) ရုန်းကန် လှုပ်ရှားခြင်း စသော တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း၊ တိုက်ပွဲဝင်ခြင်း။ a fight between two dogs ❍ a world title fight ❍ He accidentally got into a fist fight. ❍ continue the fight against poverty/ crime / disease ❍ a fight for survival ❍ the fight to protect endangered species ❍ The team put up a good fight (ie played hard and well) but were finally beaten. ❍ ARGUMENT
၂။ [U] တိုက်လိုခိုက်လိုစိတ်။ စိတ်ဓာတ် ကြံ့ခိုင်ခြင်း။ In spite of many defeats, they still had plenty of fight left in them. ❍ Losing their leader took all the fight out of them.
❏ fight back [PHRV] ပြန်ချသည်။ ခံတိုက်သည်။ ခုခံ တွန်းလှန်သည်။ After a disastrous first half we fought back to level the scores. ❍ Don't let them bully you. Fight back!
❏ fight sth back / down [PHRV ] ချုပ်တည်းထားသည်။ အောင့်အည်းထားသည်။ fight back tears / a sense of disgust.
❏ fighter n ၁။ တိုက်ခိုက်သူ(သို့) ထိုးသတ်သူ။ a professional fighter. See also FIRE-FIGHTER, FREEDOM FIGHTER
၂။ (usu approv ) ရေကုန်ရေခန်း ကြိုးပမ်း တတ်သူ။ She won't give up easily: she's a real fighter.
၃။ တိုက်လေယာဉ်။ a jet fighter ❍ fighter bases / planes ❍ a fighter pilot.
❏ fight for sth [PHRV ] ရေကုန်ရေခန်း ကြိုးပမ်းသည်။ တိုက်ပွဲဝင်သည်။ fight for one's freedom/independence/rights ❍ She is now fighting for her life in hospital.
❏ fighting n [U] ရန်ပွဲ၊ တိုက်ပွဲ။ outbreaks of street fighting ❍ reports of heavy / fierce fighting around the capital.
❏ a fighting chance [IDM ] ယှဉ်ရန်အခွင့်အလမ်း။ There is a fighting chance that we can still save the old church from demolition.
❏ fighting talk / words [IDM ] အနိုင်မခံ အရှုံးမပေး သည့်လေ။
❏ fight sb / sth off [PHRV ] တွန်းလှန်သည်။ ခုခံ ပယ်ရှားသည်။ They had to fight off repeated enemy attacks. ❍ fight off a cold / feeling of tiredness.
❏ fight sth out [PHRV ] ရင်ဆိုင်ဖြေရှင်းသည်။ I can't help them to resolve their quarrel–they must fight it out between them.
❏ fight shy of sth [IDM ] ဝန်လေးသည်။ He was unhappy in his job for years but always fought shy of admitting it.
❏ a fight to the finish [IDM ] ဆုံးခန်းတိုင်သည် အထိ အပြတ်တိုက်သည်။

More examples

These men had fought the Japanese in the Second World War.
[fight against] : The French had no desire to fight against the British.
[fight for] : We believed we were fighting for freedom and democracy.
[fight to do something] : Allied troops fought to liberate the city.
[fight a war/battle] : The terrorists claim that they are fighting a just war.
[fight bravely/valiantly/hard] : The young soldiers fought valiantly but were soon defeated.
[fight with] : Protesters fought with the police outside the Embassy building.
[fight over] : Children fought over scraps of food.
[fight to the death] : Male lions rarely fight to the death over females.
[fight someone for something] : He hopes to fight the champion for the world title.
[fight over] : Look, I don’t want to fight over this.
[fight about] : What are you two fighting about now?
The government has restated its determination to fight terrorism.
[fight against] : All her life she fought against racism.
The survivors have fought a ten-year battle for justice.
[fight to do something] : Local campaigners are fighting to save the hospital from closure.
[fight for] : Many of the injured are still fighting for compensation.
[fight the urge/impulse/desire] : She fought the urge to run after him.
Our party is ready to fight an election at any time.
[fight for] : Four teams will be fighting for a place in the final.

Synonyms

brawl, clash, scrap, wrestle, struggle, battle, come to blows, exchange blows, action, affray, aggression, aggressiveness, altercate, altercation, argue, argument, assault, attack, backbone, bandy with, battle royal, bear arms, belief, belligerence, bicker, boldness, bout, box, broil, brush, brush with, buck, buckle down, carry on, carry on war, challenge, combat, combativeness, competition, conduct, conflict, confrontation, contend, contention, contest, continue, controversy, courage, cross swords, defy, difficulty, ding-dong, disagreement, dispute, dissension, do battle, dogfight, duel, effect, endure, engage in, engagement, exchange, exert oneself, fall out, feud, fisticuffs, flare up, force, fracas, fray, free-for-all, further, fuss, gameness, go to war, grapple, hammer away, hardihood, hassle, hostility, joust, lay into, light into, maintain, make a stand against, match, meet, melee, mettle, militancy, mix it up, oppose, oppose action, oppugn, persevere, persist, physical encounter, pluck, ply weapons, prize fight, prosecute, protect, pugnacity, push forward, put up an argument, quarrel, repel, resist, resistance, riot, rivalry, round, row, rowdy, ruckus, rumble, run-in, scrimmage, scuffle, set-to, skirmish, spar, spare no effort, sparring match, spirit, squabble, stand up to, strife, strive, support, take all comers, take on, take pains, take the field, take up the gauntlet, tangle with, tiff, tilt, to-do, toil on, travail, traverse, tug, tussle, uphold, wage, wage war, war, withstand, wrangle, wrangling

Antonyms

accept, accord, agree, agreement, believe, calm, cease, comply, concord, concur, cowardice, forget, friendliness, friendship, give in, give up, halt, harmony, idle, ignore, kindness, leave, let go, make peace, neglect, peace, quiet, quit, reconciliation, stop, support, surrender, truce, uphold, weakness, yield