Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fighting a rearguard action

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English

Syllables
fight-ing a rear-guard ac-tion
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle of fight a rearguard action

Questions

What does fighting a rearguard action mean?
present participle of fight a rearguard action

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