fighting

Meanings

Adjective

• Engaged in war or other conflict.
• Apt to provoke a fight.

Verb

• Present participle of fight

Noun

• The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
• A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight

Origin

• From Middle English feghtyng, fyȝtynge, fightand, feghtand, feghtande, feightand, feȝtand, viȝtinde, feihtende, from Old English feohtende, from Proto-Germanic *fehtandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *fehtaną, equivalent to fight + -ing.
• From Middle English fightyng, fightynge, fiȝtinge, feȝtyng, from Old English fihtung, equivalent to fight + -ing.