fighting
//ˈfaɪ.tɪŋ//
Forms
- Plural
- fightings
Definitions
1.Engaged in war or other conflict.
- I don't like to see people fighting.
2.Apt to provoke a fight.
- Them's fighting words in my country!
- It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
- Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.
1.present participle and gerund of fight
1.The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
2.A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
- Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks.
- Then here the warres end, here our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3570
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
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.