Fight-off synonyms

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repel (related)
To refuse to accept (someone); spurn.
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hold back
(Idiomatic) to delay, especially in school
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fend-off
(Nautical) To prevent (a vessel) from running against anything with too much violence.
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repulse
To repel with discourtesy, coldness, indifference, etc.; refuse, reject, or rebuff
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defend (related)
Defend is defined as to stand up for, protect or guard.
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rebuff
To rebuff is to reject someone or something in an abrupt way.
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drive back
force or drive back
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resist
(Intransitive) To oppose.
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Find another word for fight-off. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for fight-off, like: repel, hold back, fend-off, repulse, defend, rebuff, drive back and resist.
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Fight-off Sentence Examples

  • The shots your vet prescribed are necessary to help your cat's hormonal system remain in balance and able to fight off immune reactions that produce the typical allergy symptoms.

  • At barely ten years old, he'd been too weak to fight off full-grown men, too weak to protect her.

  • She had no micro, no genetically engineered body or weapons to fight off anything that came at them.

  • Help sent from Athens was diverted to Crete, and after much manoeuvring Phormio .was compelled to fight off Naupactus.

  • He fought in the naval fight off Sluys and in the one off Winchelsea in 1350; he led armies into Scotland, Gascony and Normandy, his exploits in Gascony in 1345 and 1346 being especially successful; he served frequently under Edward III.

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