Fight back

Definition

fight / faÇt / v ( pt, pp fought /fↄ:t/) ၁။ သတ္ပုတ္သည္။ တိုက္ခိုက္သည္။ ထိုးသတ္သည္။ ေထြးလံုးသတ္ပုတ္သည္။ 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။ တိုက္ပြဲဝင္သည္။ ၊ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲဝင္သည္။ စစ္ထိုးသည္။ fight a war / a duel / an election campaign ❍ The government has to fight several by elections in the coming months. ၃။ ~ (against) sth တြန္းလွန္ တိုက္ခိုက္သည္။ (မီး) ၿငိမ္းသတ္ သည္။ ဆန္႔က်င္သည္။ fight (against) disease / poverty / oppression / ignorance ❍ fight a fire ❍ We will fight the decision vigorously. ၄။ ~ (about / over sth) ျငင္းခံုသည္။ ေစာဒကတက္သည္။ It's a trivial matter and not worth fighting about. n ၁။ [C] ေထြးလံုးသတ္ပုတ္ ထိုးခုတ္ ကိုက္ဖဲ့ျခင္း (သို႔) ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ထိုးသတ္ျခင္း (သို႔) ႐ုန္းကန္ လႈပ္ရွားျခင္း စေသာ တိုက္ခိုက္ျခင္း၊ တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ျခင္း။ 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] တိုက္လိုခိုက္လိုစိတ္။ စိတ္ဓာတ္ ႀကံ႕ခိုင္ျခင္း။ 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 ] ျပန္ခ်သည္။ ခံတိုက္သည္။ ခုခံ တြန္းလွန္သည္။ 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 ] ခ်ဳပ္တည္းထားသည္။ ေအာင့္အည္းထားသည္။ fight back tears / a sense of disgust. ❏ fighter n ၁ ။ တိုက္ခိုက္သူ(သို႔) ထိုးသတ္သူ။ a professional fighter. See also FIRE-FIGHTER, FREEDOM FIGHTER ၂။ ( usu approv ) ေရကုန္ေရခန္း ႀကိဳးပမ္း တတ္သူ။ She won't give up easily: she's a real fighter. ၃။ တိုက္ေလယာဥ္။ a jet fighter ❍ fighter bases / planes ❍ a fighter pilot. ❏ fight for sth [ PHRV ] ေရကုန္ေရခန္း ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည္။ တိုက္ပြဲဝင္သည္။ fight for one's freedom/independence/rights ❍ She is now fighting for her life in hospital. ❏ fighting n [U] ရန္ပြဲ၊ တိုက္ပြဲ။ outbreaks of street fighting ❍ reports of heavy / fierce fighting around the capital. ❏ a fighting chance [ IDM ] ယွဥ္ရန္အခြင့္အလမ္း။ There is a fighting chance that we can still save the old church from demolition. ❏ fighting talk / words [ IDM ] အႏိုင္မခံ အ႐ံႈးမေပး သည့္ေလ။ ❏ fight sb / sth off [ PHRV ] တြန္းလွန္သည္။ ခုခံ ပယ္ရွားသည္။ They had to fight off repeated enemy attacks. ❍ fight off a cold / feeling of tiredness. ❏ fight sth out [ PHRV ] ရင္ဆိုင္ေျဖရွင္းသည္။ I can't help them to resolve their quarrel–they must fight it out between them. ❏ fight shy of sth [ IDM ] ဝန္ေလးသည္။ He was unhappy in his job for years but always fought shy of admitting it. ❏ a fight to the finish [ IDM ] ဆံုးခန္းတိုင္သည္ အထိ အျပတ္တိုက္သည္။

Examples

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