fight
IPA: fˈaɪt
noun
- An occasion of fighting.
- (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
- A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
- (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
- A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
- (uncountable) The will or ability to fight.
- (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships; an arming.
verb
- Senses relating to physical conflict:
- (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
- (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
- (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- (reciprocal) To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- (causative, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
- (intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.
- (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
- (intransitive) Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.
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Examples of "fight" in Sentences
- Many soldiers were inspired to fight and win the battle.
- The fight went the distance with Dower winning on points.
- The following day fighting resumed in the battle of the island.
- It was a war depredation or massacre of the fighting population.
- Once at the battle, the troopers would dismount to fight on foot.
- They are pivotal in the fighting and ending of the War of the Lance.
- In the final battle of the war, the brothers' armies fight to a stalemate.
- The outnumbered Russians fight fiercely and bravely but they lose the battle.
- The characters fight Tyranthraxus the Flamed One in a climactic final battle.
- He died in the War of the Ring, fighting in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
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