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fight a rearguard action

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English

Syllables
fight- a rear-guard ac-tion
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of fight a losing battle.

Inflected Forms

fights a rearguard action (present, singular) fighting a rearguard action (participle, present) fought a rearguard action (participle, past) fought a rearguard action (past)

Synonyms

fight a losing battle

Questions

What does fight a rearguard action mean?
Synonym of fight a losing battle.

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