infight
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "While Kennedy infought to trim outlays to match resources, critics claimed that the era of the big eleemosynaries had come to an end."
- "Unfortunately what we have going on in this world against the new Israeli State, is just like what the Arabs do to their own, as they infight, among Muslims, and different nationalities, and sects, just as the many Christians do, and mostly did during the times of the Protestant revolution, and exodus and expulsion."
- "And then each group began to infight on some pretext."
- "Be prepared to slip and duck his jab to infight or to counter with a quick punch to the head or body."
- "Even if you're giving up reach in order to infight, standing at the end of your opponent's punch (impact position) isn't the way to do it."
- "Walker tried hard to close with his opponent, and infight, but by using both hands to good advantage Fus. Scott held his own."
Etymology
Apparently a back-formation from infighting, perhaps continuing Middle English infighten (“to attack”), from Old English infiht, infeoht (“an attack made upon a person by another in the same house or between members of a household”), equivalent to in- + fight. Compare Middle English infiht (“an internal fight, a brawl within a household”).