fight
verb (used without object)
to engage in battle or in single combat; attempt to defend oneself against or to subdue, defeat, or destroy an adversary.
fightable
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a word derived from
fight.
Example Sentences
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He had nearly reached its mouth when a great greasy black goanna clambered up a sapling from under his feet and looked fightable.
From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
Andy appraised him mentally, decided that he was an able-bodied man and therefore fightable, and threw his right leg over the cantle with a quite surprising alacrity.
From The Flying U Ranch by B. M. Bower
If the Pinkerton press were all, it would be fightable.
From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Dame Rose Macaulay
