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
- The team's good, but it can't win unless you fight -- _fight_! "
- Yuri Foreman brings a record of 28-0 with eight knockouts into his title fight against Miguel Cotto.
- You pay to watch a title fight in Vegas knowing that a fighter might get knocked down in the first round.
- Now 33 and creeping toward retirement, the Brooklyn native has another title fight Saturday night at Mandalay Bay.
- "You don't have freedom of speech in this country with regard to whether you go fight or whether you don't want to go fight .
- Some say its because the White House message machine drones on 24/7 that the best way to fight the war on terror is to be in Iraq, fight them there, rather than here.
- which oddly enough was a fight that was hosted by pride..fight goes on for about an hour and 15 minutes, and ends with royce gracie forfeiting from exaustion..no submissions or knockouts…
- [_They fight on_ Julio's _side, and fight_ Octavio _out at t'other side: Enter_ Laura _and_ Sabina _at the Fore-door, which is the same where Sir_ Signal _stands: _ Tick. _groping up that way, finds Sir_ Sig. _just entring in; _ Laura _and_
- In the expressions, The man walks -- The boy plays -- Thunders roll --- Warriors fight -- you perceive that the words _walks, plays, roll_, and _fight_, are _active verbs; _ and you cannot be at a loss to know, that the nouns _man, boy, thunders_, and
- So, if any one wants to fight, "-- he looked at Raventik here, but that fire-eater happened to be absent-minded at the moment, and sat with downcast eyes, --" _to fight_, "he repeated with emphasis," he will have to remain at home and fight the walrus -- or the women! "
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