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fight off

VERB
  1. force or drive back
    fight off the onslaught
    repel the attacker
    rebuff the attack

How To Use fight off In A Sentence

  • You might not think to tell your doctor about the echinacea you take to help fight off your colds, or the feverfew you use to prevent your migraines.
  • Seedlings of parsnip, carrot, beetroot and radish must fight off slugs, and weeds also need checking, hoeing them as they grow, to leave the pests nowhere to hide.
  • The immune system enables the body to fight off illness.
  • But others have been forced to take on heavy debts to fight off hostile bids.
  • This is a possible cure to fight off cancer.
  • As you may already know, I work on my Heart Smarts goodwill program full time, helping people fight off vices that plague their lives, like gambling and genocide.
  • The incandescent gas mantle, developed by the German von Welsbach in 1885, greatly increased illuminating power and for a time helped fight off competition from electric lighting.
  • Samantha had managed to isolate enough of the antibodies to fight off the virus in six of seven rats she'd infected. MINUTES TO BURN
  • Unfortunately these drugs are quite toxic and hinder the body's ability to fight off infection.
  • To get there, you must climb up the tippy aluminum construction ladder, fight off your traumatic experience falling off a similar ladder when you were seven and inch your way to the trapeze platform.
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