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firefighting

noun

Etymology

From fire + fighting.

  1. derived from *fehtaną✻ — “to comb, struggle, contend with”
  2. inherited from *fehtandz✻
  3. inherited from feohtende
  4. inherited from feghtyng
  5. compounded as firefighting — “fire + fighting”

Definitions

  1. The extinguishing of a fire.

  2. The profession of being a firefighter.

  3. Solving an urgent problem.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for firefighting. 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