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单词 fight off
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fight off

1. phrasal verb
If you fight off something, for example an illness or an unpleasant feeling, you succeed in getting rid of it and in not letting it overcome you.
Unfortunately these drugs are quite toxic and hinder the body's ability to fightoff infection. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
All day she had fought off the impulse to phone Harry. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb
If you fight off someone who has attacked you, you fight with them, and succeed in making them go away or stop attacking you.
The woman fought off the attacker. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
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fight off in British English

verb (tr, adverb)
1. 
to repulse; repel
2. 
to struggle to avoid or repress
to fight off a cold

fight off in American English

to struggle to avoid
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Examples of 'fight off' in a sentence
fight off

At the far end they have a job to fight off our fellows trying to help themselves.
Townsend, Eileen IN LOVE AND WAR
We also fight off the occasional troll or ogre that comes too far south.
Tepper, Sheri S. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS

Chinese translation of 'fight off'

fight off

vt

  1. [attacker] 击(擊)退 (jītuì)
  2. [disease] 消除 (xiāochú)
  3. [sleep, urge] 克制 (kèzhì)
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Nearby words of
fight off

  • fight
  • fight back
  • fight down
  • fight off
  • fight out
  • fighter
  • fighting

Related terms of
fight off

  • fight out
  • fight down
  • fight back
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