fight
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English fighten (“to fight”), from Old English feohtan (“to fight, combat, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan (“to fight”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, tease, shear, struggle with”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear”).
Cognate with Scots fecht (“to fight”), West Frisian fjochtsje, fjuchte (“to fight”), Dutch vechten (“to fight”), Low German fechten (“to fight”), German fechten (“to fight, fence”), Danish fægte (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons)”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fekte (“to fence”), Swedish fäkta (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons), to wave vigorously (and carelessly) with one's arms”), Latin pectō (“comb, thrash”, verb), Albanian pjek (“to hit, strive, fight”), Ancient Greek πέκω (pékō, “comb or card wool”, verb). Related also to Old English feht (“wool, shaggy pelt, fleece”).
Inflected forms:
form: fights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fought
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foughten
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: fight
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: fight
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: fought
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: fight
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: fightest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: fought
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: foughtest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: fights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fighteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: fought
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: fight
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: fought
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: fight
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: fought
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: fight
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: fighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foughten
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: fights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Senses relating to physical conflict:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II.
gloss: Senses relating to physical conflict:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Our soldiers fought the battle just over that hill.
I have fought a good fight.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him;
Greatly unfortunate, he fights the Cauſe
Of Honour, Virtue, Liberty, and Rome.
was left to fight his way through the world.
gloss: Senses relating to physical conflict:
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A wounded animal will fight tooth and nail; relentless, savage and murderous.
gloss: Senses relating to physical conflict:
pos: verb
tags: reciprocal
examples: The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour.
gloss: Senses relating to physical conflict:
pos: verb
tags: causative
examples: And so we made their grave where they should lie
Close side by side, as they had fought their tank
Through every fight, arm touching arm.
We made it deep, that nothing of the conflict they had left above
Should break into their peace.
to fight cocks; to fight one’s ship
gloss: To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He fought for the Democrats in the last election.
Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. Then, for a jiffy, I hung on and fought for breath.
[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors.
gloss: To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The government pledged to fight corruption.
I fought a sneeze as Max took my hand and led me into the chapel.
gloss: Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The higher the saturation, the more the colors fight, and the more users will be looking at your design instead of your content.
gloss: An occasion of fighting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of them got stuck in a chokehold and got stabbed to death during the fight.
gloss: A battle between opposing armies.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Watch your language! Are you looking for a fight?
gloss: A boxing or martial arts match.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I’m going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night.
gloss: A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I’ll put up a fight to save this company.
‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs.
gloss: The will or ability to fight.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: That little guy has a bit of fight in him after all. As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the fight went out of him.
gloss: A screen for the combatants in ships; an arming.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]
Synonyms: affray
dust-up
fight
fracas
kerfuffle
rixation
ruckus
set to
set-to
stoush
Related words: clash
conflict
confrontation
contention
riot
altercation
dispute
commotion
disorder
combative
attack
Derived words: armored combat fight
armoured combat fight
banyan fight
bare-knuckle fight
barfight
befight
bitch fight
bitchfight
boodle fight
bossfight
bottle fight
bullfight
bun-fight
bun fight
cage fight
catfight
cat fight
chicken fight
cockfight
copyfight
couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery
dog-fight
dogfight
dog fight
dog in the fight
fext
fightback
fighter
fighting
fight IQ
fight-or-flight
fight or flight
fight scene
fight shy
fightsome
fight song
fight stick
fight the good fight
fight to the death
fight to the finish
fightwite
fightworthy
fighty
firefight
fist-fight
fist fight
fistfight
food fight
footfight
forfight
freedom fight
grog-fight
gunfight
handfight
handy-fight
have a dog in the fight
infight
knife fight
megafight
mud fight
paper fight
pick a fight
piefight
pillow fight
postfight
prefight
prize fight
prizefight
put up a fight
refight
running fight
sexfight
slap fight
snowball fight
snowfight
spoiling for a fight
straight fight
streetfight
street fight
superfight
sword fight
swordfight
tea fight
thumb fight
water fight
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: عَارَكَ
roman: ʕāraka
lang: Arabic
word: قَاتَلَ
roman: qātala
lang: Armenian
word: մարտնչել
roman: martnčʻel
lang: Basque
word: borrokatu
lang: Basque
word: borroka egin
lang: Belarusian
word: ваява́ць
roman: vajavácʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: бия се
roman: bija se
lang: Catalan
word: combatre
lang: Chickasaw
word: ittafama
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: uwana na
lang: Czech
word: bojovat
lang: Danish
word: udkæmpe
lang: Dutch
word: vechten tegen
lang: Dutch
word: vechten met
lang: Dutch
word: bevechten
lang: Estonian
word: sõdima
lang: Finnish
word: taistella
lang: French
word: combattre
lang: Old French
word: batre
lang: Old French
word: cumbatre
lang: Galician
word: combatir
lang: Georgian
word: შებრძოლება
roman: šebrʒoleba
lang: Georgian
word: შერკინება
roman: šerḳineba
lang: German
word: kämpfen gegen
lang: German
word: kämpfen mit
lang: Greek
word: πολεμώ
roman: polemó
lang: Hebrew
word: נאבק
roman: ne'evák
lang: Hebrew
word: נלחם
roman: nilkhám
lang: Icelandic
word: berjast við
lang: Irish
word: troid
lang: Italian
word: combattere
lang: Japanese
word: 対決する
roman: taiketsu suru
lang: Japanese
word: 戦う
roman: tatakau
lang: Japanese
word: 闘う
roman: tatakau
lang: Khmer
word: ប្រយុទ្ឋ
roman: prɑɑyutthɑɑ
lang: Korean
word: 싸우다
roman: ssauda
lang: Latin
word: combattuo
lang: Latvian
word: cīnīties
lang: Lithuanian
word: kovoti
lang: Lithuanian
word: kautis
lang: Mongolian
word: тэмцэх
roman: temcex
lang: Mongolian
word: байлдах
roman: bajldax
lang: Norwegian
word: slåss
lang: Occitan
word: batre
lang: Occitan
word: combatre
lang: Persian
word: جنگیدن
roman: jangidan
lang: Portuguese
word: combater
lang: Portuguese
word: lutar
lang: Romanian
word: combate
lang: Romansh
word: cumbatter
lang: Russian
word: би́ться
roman: bítʹsja
lang: Russian
word: сража́ться
roman: sražátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: воева́ть
roman: vojevátʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cog
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sabaid
lang: Spanish
word: combatir
lang: Swahili
word: vita
lang: Thai
word: ต่อสู้
roman: dtɔ̀ɔ-sûu
lang: Tok Pisin
word: paitim
lang: Ukrainian
word: воюва́ти
roman: vojuváty
lang: Armenian
word: պայքար
roman: paykʻar
lang: Belarusian
word: барацьба́
roman: baracʹbá
lang: Bulgarian
word: борба́
roman: borbá
lang: Danish
word: kamp
lang: Dutch
word: strijd
lang: Finnish
word: taistelu
lang: French
word: combativité
lang: German
word: Streit
lang: Hebrew
word: מַאֲבָק
roman: ma'avák
lang: Hungarian
word: küzdelem
lang: Irish
word: comhrac
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kamp
lang: Persian
word: نزاع
roman: nezâ'
lang: Persian
word: کشمکش
roman: kešmakeš
lang: Polish
word: walka
lang: Polish
word: bitwa
lang: Portuguese
word: luta
lang: Russian
word: борьба́
roman: borʹbá
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: còmhrag
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: борба
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: borba
lang: Spanish
word: lucha
lang: Spanish
word: socaliña
lang: Swedish
word: kamp
lang: Ukrainian
word: боротьба́
roman: borotʹbá