Definition of Fight down

1. Verb. Fight against or resist strongly. "Don't fight it!"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Fight Down

figged
figger
figgered
figgeries
figgering
figgers
figgery
figgum
figgy
figgy-dowdy
fight
fight-or-flight
fight a losing battle
fight back
fight down (current term)
fight fire with fire
fight fires
fight in armour
fight off
fight or flight
fight or flight reaction
fight shy of
fight the good fight
fight the tape
fight to the death
fight tooth and nail
fightable
fightback
fightbacks

Literary usage of Fight down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Development of Tactics--World War by William Balck (1922)
"If at some points a block occurs in the forward movement through fire from some trench, or from a machine gun nest, the tanks fight down the resistance. ..."

2. The Young Lady's Private Counselor: The Care of Mind and Body ... ; a Book by Melville Cox Keith (1890)
"And, if you have begun to fight down these passions, you will find that, from one cause or another, you are more passionate directly after the menstrual ..."

3. The Honey-comb: Or, Nine-months by Ruth Van Saun (1920)
"Keep this seed in your body and fight down all passion as you would fight down some beast that was clawing at your vitals. This seed is marrow to your bones ..."

4. Exciting Experiences in Our Wars with Spain and the Filipinos by Marshall Everett (1900)
"... From the labor does not shirk, Down below, He is shoveling day and night, Feeding flames a-blazing bright, Keeping up a killing fight, Down below. ..."

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