fighting

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The soldiers he had fought with knew him only as a man who cared more for the fighting than for what the fighting was about, and he had been as ready to write on one side as to fight on the other.

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  1. The act of engaging in combat or battle; a battle or contest. When we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. From whence come wars and fightings among you? Jas. iv. 1.
  2. Qualified or trained to fight; fit to fight: as, fighting armies. Sexty thowsande mene, the syghte was fulle hugge, Alle fyghtande folke of the ferre laundes. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), I. 4067. Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11.
  3. Of or pertaining to battle; characteristic of a disposition to fight. In the hurry of human events that marks our modern wars, mere fighting qualities, even of the best, have little to do in bringing about great results. N. A. Rev., CXLII. 468.
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  • Other rebels say the fighting is the latest in a string of assaults on their positions in North Darfur over the past week. —  The Daou Report
  • The well-documented illegal exploitation of minerals in the eastern Congo can only continue as long as the militia fighting is allowed to mask the plunder. —  Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
  • Victoria state police Inspector Chris Duthie said the fighting was allegedly sparked when one group threw a tennis ball at another. —  Sportsnet.ca - Sports News
  • Victoria state police Inspector Chris Duthie said the fighting was allegedly sparked when one group threw a at another. —  Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • Among the findings tabulated in an effort to quantify the exact number of combatants and civilians killed during the fighting is a figure for the number of people killed in a much publicized story alleging Israel shelled the Al-Fakura school on Jan. 6, 2009.
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  1. from Middle English fightyng, fihtinge; verbal noun of fight, v.
  2. Ppr. of fight, v. In second sense, attributive use of fighting, n.
 

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