tilt at windmills (English, verb)
expansion: tilt at windmills (third-person singular simple present tilts at windmills, present participle tilting at windmills, simple past and past participle tilted at windmills)
Senses:
glosses: To attack imaginary enemies.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To go on a wild-goose chase; to persistently engage in a futile activity.
tags: broadly
intransitive
Forms:
form: tilts at windmills
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tilting at windmills
tags: participle
present
form: tilted at windmills
tags: participle
past
form: tilted at windmills
tags: past
form: fight windmills
tags: alternative