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fight back


phrasal verb with fightverbuk /faɪt/ us /faɪt/fought | fought
to defend yourself when someone attacks you physically: 反击,回击,抵抗
He fought back and managed to wrestle the knife from his attacker's hands.他奋力还击,夺下了袭击者手里的刀。
to defend yourself against criticisms, accusations, etc.:
Jones has denied the charge and has fought back publicly.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Responding to an attack
beat
beat someone off
beat someone/something back
capitulate
combat patrol
counter-assault
counterattack
countercharge
fight
hold
parry
pull
pull back
refight
repel
repulse
resist
stand
strike
white flag

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Defending and protecting

fight something back


phrasal verb with fightverbuk /faɪt/ us /faɪt/fought | fought
to try hard not to show an emotion:
Her speech was so emotional I had to fight back tears a couple of times.
He hugged his lawyers and seemed to be fighting back his emotions.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Controlling emotions
anger management
blackmail
bottle
bottle something up
breaking point
choke
compose
cork
dysregulated
dysregulation
emotional blackmailidiom
frustrated
get beyond something
put on a brave faceidiom
repress
repressed
repression
self-possessed
self-possessedly
temperate
Examples from literature

Always a fighting politician in public it was inevitable that he should now fight back. 
But if he acts antagonistic, be careful not to appear to fight back. 
He had been attacked, and had fought back only in self-preservation. 
They seemed brow-beaten into the belief that it would be useless to fight back. 
Tom refused to pursue his advantage while the other could not fight back. 

fight something back | American Dictionary


fight something back


phrasal verb with fightverb[ I/T ]us/fɑɪt/past tense and past participlefoughtus/fɔt/

(NOT SHOW)


to try hard not to show a strong emotion:
She fought back the tears as she watched her brother go.

fight back


phrasal verb with fightverb[ I/T ]us/fɑɪt/past tense and past participlefoughtus/fɔt/

(DEFEND)


to defend yourself against attack or criticism:
You’ve seen him fight back every time he’s been unfairly attacked.
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