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Fight   /faɪt/   Listen
verb
Fight  v. t.  (past & past part. fought; pres. part. fighting)  
1.
To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause. "He had to fight his way through the world." "I have fought a good fight."
2.
To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.
3.
To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.
To fight it out, to fight until a decisive and conclusive result is reached.


Fight  v. i.  (past & past part. fought; pres. part. fighting)  
1.
To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; followed by with or against. "You do fight against your country's foes." "To fight with thee no man of arms will deign."
2.
To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
To fight shy, to avoid meeting fairly or at close quarters; to keep out of reach.


noun
Fight  n.  
1.
A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc. "Who now defies thee thrice to single fight."
2.
A struggle or contest of any kind.
3.
Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him. (Colloq.)
4.
A screen for the combatants in ships. (Obs.) "Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare."
Running fight, a fight in which the enemy is continually chased; also, one which continues without definite end or result.
Synonyms: Combat; engagement; contest; struggle; encounter; fray; affray; action; conflict. See Battle.





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"Fight" Quotes from Famous Books



... prevent irritation; and there is no one who cannot do harm if he is roused to it. But if this pure, cold, sincere contempt ever shows itself, it will be met with the most truculent hatred; for the despised person is not in a position to fight contempt with ...
— The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism • Arthur Schopenhauer
... told Madame Novikoff that his task was done so far as Inkerman was concerned, and was proud to think that he had rescued from oblivion the heroism of the Russian troops in what he calls the "Third Period" of the great fight, ignored as it was by all Russian historians of the war. He made fruitless inquiries after a paper said to have been left behind him by Skobeleff, explaining that "India is a cherry to be eaten by Russia, but in two bites"; it ...
— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell
... inward at the mysteries of the world behind the phenomena of sense. It is difficult, in set theological terms, to define the poet's creed, though we know that he was won by the Broad Church teaching of his friends, Frederick Robertson and Denison Maurice, and had himself many a battle to fight with honest doubts until—as his 'Crossing the Bar' shows us—he finally conquered and laid them. But while there is an absence of definite doctrine in his work there is no question about his religious ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII • John Lord
... wish for a complete reconciliation. This was not an agreeable intimation. Nature resisted it for a while. It would have been a vast deal pleasanter to have had her more disinterested in her attachment; but his vanity was not of a strength to fight long against reason. He submitted to believe that Tom's illness had influenced her, only reserving for himself this consoling thought, that considering the many counteractions of opposing habits, she ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... bed with surfeit, or perplexity, while the other is wrapped in peaceful slumber; and, if he is one who recognizes the moral ends of life, finds himself called upon to contend with his own heart, and to fight with peculiar temptations. And thus the rich man and the poor man, who seem so unequal in the street, would find but a thin partition between them, could they, as they might, detect one another kneeling on the same platform of spiritual endeavor, and sending up the same prayers ...
— Humanity in the City • E. H. Chapin


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