fight someone/thing off

fight someone/thing off defend oneself against an attack by someone or something 击退（某人或某事物）; 竭力摆脱： well-fed people are better able to fight off infectious disease. 吃得好的人更能抵抗传染病。

• Daedalus
• mestizoes
• wined
• speed use
• crematories
• majorly
• force piece
• realigner
• postclassics
• inclinometer
• feulgens
• triethyl
• diversion tunnel
• a fertile imagination / mind / brain
• west countries
• pick and choose
• be after
• D-group
• hypobaropathy
• give the red rag a holiday
• anno aetatis suae
• sanctify
• navicular
• subgenuses
• catalogue
• clarkeite
• in the dry tree
• paragogically
• cherubically
• whale the stuffing out of someone
• vineyard
• plastic sulphur
• cumulative radiation dose
• office hours
• master matrix
• teentsier
• calcanea
• subaqua
• megohmmeter
• Larisa
• frankness
• o-nitroaniline
• pronota
• thermotropism
• antennate
• polyunsaturated
• transposabilities
• kirmess
• in the shade
• DuPont, Eleuthere Irenée
• lonely hearts club / column / ad
• osirian
• close（或near）to home
• cross sb’s hand/palm with silver
• marathoning
• ape shit
• cell-free translation sytem
• woo away
• set someone at liberty
• polyclinic
• dichotomous
• baton rouges
• viscera
• mockeries
• orienteer
• methyl alcohols
• lithospermous
• climb the ladder
• head kit
• decontaminator
• dropwort
• union shops
• ring out
• as well as sth / sb
• status asthmaticus
• barry
• coherent unit
• apprehensively
• cock robin
• guard-boat
• give someone a ring
• crumplier
• taller
• health check
• firmer chisel
• potlucks
• procurador
• clother
• preach a sermon
• block a bill
• particulate
• collage novel
• periodical
• dermatomes
• a far cry from
• sinoite
• embryo transfer
• dominatrix
• surge electrode current
• vinified