Encounter and Fighting

Encounter

Encounter noun - A minor short-term fight.

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Fighting and encounter are semantically related in armed conflict topic. In some cases you can use "Fighting" instead a noun "Encounter".

Nearby Words: encountered, encountering

Fighting noun - The act of fighting; any contest or struggle.

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Encounter and fighting are semantically related in armed conflict topic. Sometimes you can use "Encounter" instead a noun "Fighting".

Nearby Words: fight, fighter

close	close encounter	close fighting
high	high encounter	high fighting
normal	normal encounter	normal fighting
direct	direct encounter	direct fighting
Other adjectives: fixed, regular, proper, single, actual, entire, real, little, bad, personal, early, major, tactical.

Generally, only if you're quite unlucky in an encounter or fighting the Ancient One.

Source: Tabletop Game / Arkham Horror
Happens all the time in the German live action/puppet comedy "Bernd das Brot", when he is about to encounter a falling anvil, run down by Spanish fighting bulls etc. etc.

Source: This Is Gonna Suck
They actually spent most of their first encounter with Bass fighting each other more than they were fighting him because of this.

Source: Anime / Mega Man NT Warrior

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