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What does fight back mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fight back? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) to defend oneself by fighting.
  2. (intransitive) to counterattack; to resist an attack.
  3. (transitive) to repress; to struggle to repress.
  4. (intransitive, in sports) to overturn a losing deficit.
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Firefighters, police, council workers and Thames Water joined forces to fight back the flood and limit the damage.
The most important way in which the present system makes people cooperate with each other is when it drives them to fight back against it.
He pulls me through the crowd, much as I try to fight back, hissing insults and cussing at him like a sailor.
He was a victim of genetic pollution and courageously decided to fight back and speak out against bio-serfdom.
It is the key to the fight back against pollution, global warming, and dwindling resources.
A real Chinese martial arts hero never strikes his enemy if the latter is unable to fight back.

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