fight off

phrasal verb

fought off; fighting off; fights off

: to defend oneself against (someone or something) by fighting or struggling : to avoid being harmed or overcome by (someone or something) by fighting or struggling

They fought off the attack/attackers.

I'm trying to fight off a cold.

Examples of fight off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Mortgage rates saw a significant uptick after the Federal Reserve started raising rates to fight off inflation. —Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025

The idea behind the allogeneic (allo) transplant is that the donor’s cells will hopefully fight off the lymphoma more effectively than her own cells have. —Jordan Greene, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025

The former royal highness will be too busy leading the Resistance, alongside Jonathan and his ragamuffin group of bandits, to fight off all of the Queen’s men. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025

Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts — implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as three days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system fight off infections. —Erika Edwards, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for fight off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff