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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fight |
| Synonyms: | affair of honor, bout, challenge, engagement, fencing, joust, shootout, single combat, sword fight |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | contest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight |
| Synonyms: | altercate, attack, battle, brawl, break with, buck, compete, conflict, contend, cross, defend, duel, feud, fight over, gang up on, hassle, knuckle with, lay a finger on, lay out, put on gloves, put up dukes, quarrel, repel, rival, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, set to, sock, square off, strike, struggle, take on, tilt, traverse, vie, withstand, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | agree |
Example Sentences
- Let's put arete1 and kaysixteen in a thread together and let them duel it out.
- But they have prompted a running duel at the heart of government.
- One famous fossil immortalized the two species locked in an ancient duel to the death.
| Main Entry: | feud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fight bitterly; fall out |
| Synonyms: | be at daggers with, be at odds, bicker, brawl, clash, contend, dispute, duel, quarrel, row, squabble, war |
| Antonyms: | agree, make peace, socialize |
| Main Entry: | fight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical encounter |
| Synonyms: | action, affray, altercation, argument, battle, battle royal, bout, brawl, broil, brush, clash, combat, conflict, confrontation, contention, contest, controversy, difficulty, disagreement, dispute, dissension, dogfight, duel, engagement, exchange, feud, fisticuffs, fracas, fray, free-for-all, fuss, hostility, joust, match, melee, quarrel, riot, rivalry, round, row, ruckus, rumble, scrap*, scrimmage, scuffle, set-to, skirmish, sparring match, strife, struggle, tiff, to-do, tussle, war, wrangling |
| Antonyms: | peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | opposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction, antagonism |
| Synonyms: | action, antinomy, antithesis, aversion, brush, civil disobedience, clash, combat, competition, con, conflict, confronting, contention, contest, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, counteraction, counterattack, defense, defiance, disapproval, duel, encounter, engagement, fray, grapple, hostility, negativism, obstructiveness, opposure, oppugnancy, prevention, repugnance, repulsion, resistance, rivalry, skirmish, strife, struggle, unfriendliness, violation, war, warfare |
| Antonyms: | compatibility, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | repel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push away; repulse |
| Synonyms: | beat back, beat off, brush off, buck, cast aside, chase away, check, confront, cool*, cut, decline, dismiss, disown, dispute, drive away, drive back, drive off, duel, fend off, fight, force back, force off, give cold shoulder to, hold back, hold off, keep at arm's length, keep at bay, keep off, kick, knock down, oppose, parry, push back, put down, put to flight, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, resist, stand up against, stave off, traverse, turn down, ward off, withstand |
| Antonyms: | attract, draw |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | withstand, oppose |
| Synonyms: | abide, abstain from, antagonize, assail, assault, battle, bear, brook, buck, check, combat, confront, contend, continue, counteract, countervail, curb, defy, die hard, dispute, duel, endure, fight back, forbear, forgo, hinder, hold, hold off, hold out against, keep from, leave alone, maintain, persevere, persist, prevent, put up a fight, refrain, refuse, remain, remain firm, repel, stand up to, stay, stonewall, struggle against, suffer, thwart, traverse, turn down, weather |
| Antonyms: | comply, conform, go along |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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