"fight off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fights off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fighting off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fought off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fought off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fight<,,fought> off"
      },
      "expansion": "fight off (third-person singular simple present fights off, present participle fighting off, simple past and past participle fought off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Violence",
          "orig": "en:Violence",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The platoon fought off the guerilla attack."
        },
        {
          "text": "The actor John Smith hopes to fight off the other nominees for the Golden Globe award."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To succeed in defeating a challenge, or an attack."
      ],
      "id": "en-fight_off-en-verb-OfUQDlVa",
      "links": [
        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Violence",
          "orig": "en:Violence",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'm fighting off the 'flu at the moment."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To resist, particularly an infection or an emotion."
      ],
      "id": "en-fight_off-en-verb--xDVC-jX",
      "links": [
        [
          "resist",
          "resist"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fight off"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Violence"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fights off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fighting off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fought off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fought off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fight<,,fought> off"
      },
      "expansion": "fight off (third-person singular simple present fights off, present participle fighting off, simple past and past participle fought off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The platoon fought off the guerilla attack."
        },
        {
          "text": "The actor John Smith hopes to fight off the other nominees for the Golden Globe award."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To succeed in defeating a challenge, or an attack."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'm fighting off the 'flu at the moment."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To resist, particularly an infection or an emotion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "resist",
          "resist"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fight off"
}