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🔫 A gun battle 🔫 To exchange gunfire
to firefight

to firefight

1 7.5
To take part in a battle by shooting at the enemy
  • verb
  • /ˈfaɪərˌfaɪt/
translation icon : intercambiar disparos

Examples

  • If I'm gonna firefight it for you, I've gotta know the truth.

    The Unknown Trilogy (2008)

  • For the last two and a half years, the EU governments have been firefighting.

    Blog text (3)

  • This is a fire, Sir and ma'am, sister, brother, you don't try to firefight on your own.

  • Doesn't have to be firefighting stuff, could be anything.

    Florian's Knights (2021)

  • The soldiers had to firefight with the enemy troops in the dense jungle.

  • During the battle, the two sides began to firefight, leading to heavy casualties.

  • As tensions escalated, the police prepared to firefight if the situation turned violent.

Antonyms

retreat
93 4.4

A move back from a place to escape danger

surrender
77 4.2

Giving up after defeat, for example when an army stops fighting

How Intense

to firefight
1 7.5
to open fire
  • NSFW
115 4.1
to shoot
  • NSFW
∞ 1.8
to engage
316 6.1

Surface Forms

firefight infinitive
firefighting present participle
firefights third person singular
firefought past
firefought past participle

Morphology

firefight = fire + fight (semi-transparent) = fire + fight

While the components 'fire' and 'fight' are clear, the specific meaning of engaging in gunfire exchange is not a direct derivation from the base words.

Etymology

Firefight as a verb comes from the same parts fire ('to shoot') and fight ('battle'). It means 'to take part in a gun battle' or 'to shoot at an opponent during a fight'.