fight back
/faɪt bæk/ verb- To defend oneself by fighting. · The bully hadn't been expecting his victim to fight back, and now the bully has quadriplegia.
- To counterattack (counterstrike); to resist an attack or respond after one. · During the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. Navy began fighting back, and it wouldn't stop until August 1945.
- to repress; to struggle to repress. · fight back tears· She tried to fight back her laughter.
- To overturn a losing deficit.
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He promised the team manager that he would not fight back.
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