firefight

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(technical) a battle where guns are used, involving soldiers or the police

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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firefightEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus firefightEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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firefight