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fight to the finish en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A competition in which both parties continue until one side is unequivocally defeated.
    • Pei Ling Wu, 30, said: "I am worried about my family, but they do not want to leave Taiwan. They want to defend their country and fight to the end. If China continues to push us, independence is the only solution." [1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, column 2:

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fights to the finish Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

to the bitter end

Synonyms

fight to the death