| VERB | competition | fight down, fight, oppose, fight back, defend | fight against or resist strongly |
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| Meaning | fight against or resist strongly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | fight, oppose, fight back, defend | |
| Narrower | recalcitrate | show strong objection or repugnance |
| repel, repulse, fight off, rebuff, drive back | Force or drive back | |
| resist, hold out, withstand, stand firm | stand up or offer resistance / resistance to somebody or something | |
| resist, stand, fend | withstand the force of something | |
| Broader | contend, fight, struggle | Be engaged in a fight |
| Spanish | defenderse, defender, derrotar, enfrentarse, luchar, oponerse a, oponerse, oponer, pelear | |
| Catalan | defensar-se, lluitar, oposar | |
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