Usually means: Combat aggression using similar methods.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word fight fire with fire:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. fight fire with fire: Merriam-Webster
  2. fight fire with fire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fight fire with fire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. fight fire with fire: Wiktionary
  5. fight fire with fire: Dictionary.com
  6. Fight Fire With Fire (Kansas song), Fight Fire with Fire (Kansas song), Fight Fire with Fire (Metallica song), Fight Fire with Fire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. fight fire with fire: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. fight fire with fire: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. Fight fire with fire: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fight Fire with Fire: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (fight fire with fire)

verb:  (idiomatic) To respond to an attack with a similar or identical counter-attack (e.g. to respond to gunfire with reciprocal gunfire).

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