Fight definition
To strive vigorously and resolutely, as in trying to overcome something; contend.
Fought against graft; fighting for her rights.
verb
A quarrel or conflict.
Newlyweds having a fight over chores.
noun
To engage in a quarrel; argue.
They are always fighting about money.
verb
A struggle to achieve an objective.
A fight for the attainment of civil rights.
noun
To struggle or work hard in trying to beat or overcome someone or something; contend.
verb
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To engage in or carry on (a war, conflict, case, etc.)
verb
The definition of a fight is a contest or a struggle.
An example of a fight is a boxing match.
noun
To try to overcome; struggle against or contend with.
To fight a head cold, legislation to fight poverty.
verb
To gain by struggle.
To fight one's way to the top.
verb
Any struggle, contest, or quarrel.
noun
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A physical struggle; battle; combat.
noun
Power or readiness to fight; pugnacious spirit.
Full of fight.
noun
To fight is defined as to participate in a physical or verbal disagreement, or to face something and struggle through it.
An example of to fight is for a teenager to argue with his mother over his curfew.
An example of to fight is to remain strong through a battle with cancer.
verb
To attempt to harm or gain power over an adversary by blows or with weapons.
verb
(sports) To engage in a boxing match.
verb
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To make (one's way) by struggle or striving.
Fought my way to the top.
verb
To contend with or oppose with violence or in battle.
verb
To wage or carry on (a battle).
verb
To contend for, as by combat.
verb
(sports) To box against (an opponent).
verb
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To participate in (a boxing match or other similar contest).
verb
To cause (a boxer or other contestant) to fight in a match.
verb
To contend with or struggle against.
Fought his boss over every penny; fought temptation.
verb
To try to prevent the development or success of.
Fought the attempt to close the school.
verb
To try to extinguish (an uncontrolled fire).
verb
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The power or inclination to fight; pugnacity.
I just didn't have any fight left in me.
noun
A physical conflict between two or more individuals.
noun
(sports) A boxing match.
noun
To argue or quarrel; dispute.
verb
To take part in a physical struggle or battle; struggle.
verb
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To box, esp. professionally.
verb
To cause to fight; manage (a boxer, gamecock, etc.)
verb
To oppose physically or in battle, as with fists, weapons, etc.
verb
To box with in a contest.
verb
A confrontation between opposing groups in which each attempts to harm or gain power over the other, as with bodily force or weapons.
noun
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fight fire with fire
- To combat one evil or one set of negative circumstances by reacting in kind.
idiom
fight shy of
- To avoid meeting or confronting.
idiom
fight it out
- to fight until one side is defeated
idiom
fight off
- to repel an attack by
- to struggle to avoidTo fight off starvation.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of fight
- Middle English fighten from Old English feohtan, fihtan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition