Fight
[faɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a boxing or wrestling match; 'the fight was on television last night'.
(noun.) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; 'a fight broke out at the hockey game'; 'there was fighting in the streets'; 'the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap'.
(noun.) an intense verbal dispute; 'a violent fight over the bill is expected in the Senate'.
(verb.) fight against or resist strongly; 'The senator said he would oppose the bill'; 'Don't fight it!'.
(verb.) make a strenuous or labored effort; 'She struggled for years to survive without welfare'; 'He fought for breath'.
Editor: Lora--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To strive or contend 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.
(v. i.) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) A struggle or contest of any kind.
(v. i.) Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.
(v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Combat, war, contend (in arms), draw the sword, unsheath the sword, measure swords, join battle, give battle, take up the cudgels, couch one's lance, go to war, let slip the dogs of war, take up the hatchet.[2]. Contend, contest, struggle, strive, make resistance.
v. a. [1]. War against, combat against, contend against, join battle with, break a lance with, come to close quarters with.[2]. Carry through (by fighting).
n. Combat, battle, conflict, contest, struggle, engagement, encounter, action, affair, brush, fray, affray.
Edited by Gail
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Battle, contention, struggle, conflict, combat, contest, action, engagement,encounter
ANT:Pacification, reconciliation
Edited by Abraham
Definition
v.i. to strive with: to contend in war or in single combat.—v.t. to engage in conflict with: to gain by fight: to cause to fight:—pr.p. fight′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. fought (fawt).—n. a struggle: a combat: a battle or engagement.—n. Fight′er.—adj. Fight′ing engaged in or fit for war.—n. the act of fighting or contending.—ns. Fight′ing-cock a gamecock a pugnacious fellow; Fight′ing-fish (Betta pugnax) a small Siamese fresh-water fish kept for its extraordinary readiness for fighting bets being laid on the issue.—Fight it out to struggle on until the end; Fight shy of to avoid from mistrust.—Live like fighting-cocks to get the best of meat and drink.
Typed by Lillian
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you engage in a fight, denotes that you will have unpleasant encounters with your business opponents, and law suits threaten you. To see fighting, denotes that you are squandering your time and money. For women, this dream is a warning against slander and gossip. For a young woman to see her lover fighting, is a sign of his unworthiness. To dream that you are defeated in a fight, signifies that you will lose your right to property. To whip your assailant, denotes that you will, by courage and perseverance, win honor and wealth in spite of opposition. To dream that you see two men fighting with pistols, denotes many worries and perplexities, while no real loss is involved in the dream, yet but small profit is predicted and some unpleasantness is denoted. To dream that you are on your way home and negroes attack you with razors, you will be disappointed in your business, you will be much vexed with servants, and home associations will be unpleasant. To dream that you are fighting negroes, you will be annoyed by them or by some one of low character.
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Examples
- She was a warlike power, and inscribed upon her banners many a brilliant fight with Genoese and Turks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We may fight here if they follow these horse tracks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Whenever he met the Romans in open fight he beat them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We won't fight. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The festivities of a show began with a ceremonial procession (_pompa_) and a sham fight (_pr?lusio_). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But it was a fight to the death, she knew it now. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Fight your way out of it somehow--you're young and can do it, she insisted. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The fighting continued through three days. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Only among the seats are there left any of your fighting-men, and they and the slave women are fast being cut down. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- We have now ended the 6th day of very hard fighting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Gurt kept close beside Maurice, fighting like the old sea-dog he was, and got a nasty stab in the thigh, which brought him to the ground. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Fighting was substantially over by half-past seven in the morning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The fighting on the Bainsizza plateau was over and by the middle of the month the fighting for San Gabriele was about over too. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- You could remember the men you knew who died in the fighting around Pozoblanco; but it was a joke at Gaylord's. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Bell Company fought alone against the Western Union, and it was a struggle of giants. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We fought in Segovia at the start of the movement but we were beaten and we ran. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was made in America, and he fought the Indian wars and the war of the Revolution with it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- How I fought through it, _I_ don't know,' said Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There is, there must be some way, and John Carter, who has fought his way through a strange world for love of you, will find it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- During the night, General Banks fell back to Pleasant Hill, where another battle was fought on the 9th, and the enemy repulsed with great loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Pal?olithic Age was an age of fights and murder, no doubt, but not of the organized collective fighting of numbers of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was there when Finito had a contract for three fights at the Feria. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In Siam these fish are kept in glass globes, as we keep goldfish, for the purpose of fighting, and an extravagant amount of gambling takes place about the result of the fights. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the French Admiralty refused to sustain him, one old admiral saying, Thank God, France still fights her battles on the surface, not beneath it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As he fights he wins approval and advancement; as he refrains, he is disliked, ridiculed, shut out from favorable recognition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Rawdon marvelled over his stories about school, and fights, and fagging. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Its tactics are like those of the Indian who fights under cover or lies in ambush for his enemy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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