All fight back synonyms

verb fight back

• retaliate — to return like for like, especially evil for evil: to retaliate for an injury.
• resist — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
• bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• contain — If something such as a box, bag, room, or place contains things, those things are inside it.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• repel — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
• reply — followup
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• repulse — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
• beat off — to drive back; repel
• fight off — defend yourself from
• ward off — a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.