firefight
/fˈaɪɹfˌaɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To engage in a firefight.
Example Sentences
- "Military Specialization Soldier Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight."
- "Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way."
- "His goal: a patch of high ground called Sperwan Ghar, where he and his men firefought a thousand Taliban to take the hill and call in the air strikes critical to turning the tide."