Meaning

1 senses

  1. To engage in a firefight.

    Feuergefecht, Feuerkampf

    перестрелкаperestrelka

Examples

5 sentences

  1. Ziri saw insane amounts of firefights.

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  2. I worked for a firefighting company.

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  3. He says firefighting is a feast or famine job.

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  4. Firefighting in Australia is becoming increasingly sophisticated.

    deIn Australien wird die Feuerwehrarbeit technisch immer ausgereifter. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. The K-MAX chopper is the largest of several remotely piloted firefighting aircraft to get a tryout this year for firefighting duty.

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Translations

3 languages
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Origin

From fire + fight.

From fire + fight.

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Forms

firefights, firefighting, firefought, firefought
Base formfirefight · to firefight
3rd person singularfirefights
Present participlefirefighting
Past simplefirefought
Past participlefirefought

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfirefight
he, she, itfirefights

Past simpleLesson

all personsfirefought

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave firefought
he, she, ithas firefought

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill firefight

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fireballfirebrandfirecrackerfirefighterB1fireflyfirefoxfirelight

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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