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fightback

noun

Etymology

From fight + back, as a deverbal from fight back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as fightback — “fight + back”

Definitions

  1. A campaign of resistance

    A campaign of resistance; a counterattack.

    • Stosur gave hope of a fightback when she smashed through Dementieva's serve in the first game of the second set.
    • Liverpool resisted a second-half fightback from Wolves to secure a hard-fought victory and end a run of back-to-back Premier League defeats.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fightback. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA