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fought

[fawt]

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verb

simple past tense and past participle of fight.

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un·fought, adjective

well-fought, adjective

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Mazzoli have fought the immigration wars, and when they.

Wars in the future, experts say, will be fought over water.

It lasted six months, a quarter of a million soldiers died or were wounded and probably it should never have been fought.

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Mazzoli have fought the immigration wars, and when they.

Wars in the future, experts say, will be fought over water.

It lasted six months, a quarter of a million soldiers died or were wounded and probably it should never have been fought.

Scientists hooked a seven-footer, fought it until it.

They also formed ad hoc alliances and fought and even killed in pursuit of their own interests.

Hundreds of women fought in the civil war disguised as.

With a new kind of war came a new host of challenges for those who fought in it.

When companies failed to credit her work, she fought successful legal battles for.

They allegedly transported dogs across state lines, fought them against one another and gambled on the outcomes.

Once thought unlimited, the oceans' bounty is finite-and fought over.

Communities fought to survive by raiding others and attempting to seize or protect scarce water and food supplies.

Visitors can see a number of sites where these people lived, worked and fought.

Sure, there are still plenty of wars being fought with.

One arises from a clear-cut enemy who can be fought in clear-cut ways.

Sometimes they are even working with campaigners whom they had once fought to a standstill.

Sometimes they even fought alongside the men in battle.

Many territorial battles are fought w/ tails to smack the opponent.

Police were afraid to enter many areas as street gangs and guerrilla and paramilitary groups fought for control of neighborhoods.

Activists have fought a losing legal battle against mountaintop removal mining.

The board expansion followed a series of bitterly fought elections for alumni trustees.

Local residents fought fiercely to save parts of their old.

We once fought a bloody civil war to decide who would control the land.

The early part of it will be fought by unmanned vehicles and other military robots.

Later, he'd stop where each of those units fought and recount what they did in the.

Some photographers have fought to overcome the limitations of the camera lens depth of field.

He had lost a battle he probably never should have fought-or fought so vigorously.

The election was closely fought and dirty, with plenty of mud-slinging on both sides.

They had fought each other to die by jumping instead of by fire".

Wars have been fought over really dumb reasons before.

And while it may have been the first time they've fought together, as heroes they come to the aid of those in need.

The firefighters showed up but seemed overly fastidious about which fires they fought.

Like other emerging economies it fought back by imposing taxes and other restrictions on foreign purchases of local securities.

Shopkeepers have fought back by brandishing pop guns.

Good news for the iPod generation from two of their own, who fought fire with fire.

The insurgents did not give ground easily, and fought for over a month.

Preservationists had fought a plan to demolish the building, according to the article.

What made it different is that officials fought back hard for the first time.

As carriers of plague, fleas have claimed more victims than all the wars ever fought.

Some desperate survivors fought among themselves for tents distributed by relief workers.

Dreams increasingly become more violent and frequently involve episodes in which an attacker must be fought off.

Higher-education lobbyists fought the inclusion of the measure.

They hooked the shark, but it fought back every step of the way, thrashing and kicking.

Scientists fought for the right to operate independently of the meddling and interference of the church.

He fought the urge to merge at the first indication that his.

Mary fought hard to keep the requirement but another faculty who objected.

The city fought back, filing a lawsuit against the state claiming the new law infringes on its power as a home-rule city.

Conservationists have fought many renewable energy projects, opposing wind power near farms and.

The government had fought to keep the witness conduct a secret from the jury.

Changes that you once fought against, tides that you swore did not exist, begin to move you.

Desperately poor farmers fought back, killing elephants to protect their land and livelihood.

It is everything our parents and grandparents fought two world wars to prevent.

Instead, it's continually rethought what its flagship media player should do, and fought to price it aggressively.

Publics and independents, on the other hand, have actively fought against this kind of transparency for more than a decade.

Louis fought a mostly losing battle against development and neglect for.

If the farmers had fought for restoring forestry and tree-ownership rights, maybe the rules would have changed.

Upon reaching the building, the book bloc fought off police as the crowd rushed in to occupy the building.

More than a few men have fought to the death to win a woman.

Without religion, those wars wouldn't cease, they would simply be fought under different pretenses.

We considered our service part of the efforts of people who lived in the woods and fought for liberation.

Alexander the great fought without the need for oilCraving for power and war are in human nature.

He was an old and wise man who had fought during his life for a free land.

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noun

a battle or combat.

any contest or struggle: a fight for recovery from an illness.

an angry argument or disagreement: Whenever we discuss politics, we end up in a fight.

Boxing. a bout or contest.

a game or diversion in which the participants hit or pelt each other with something harmless: a pillow fight; a water fight.

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ability, will, or inclination to fight: There was no fight left in him.

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verb (used without object)

to engage in battle or in single combat; attempt to defend oneself against or to subdue, defeat, or destroy an adversary.

to contend in any manner; strive vigorously for or against something: He fought bravely against despair.

verb (used with object)

to contend with in battle or combat; war against: England fought Germany.

10.

to contend with or against in any manner: to fight despair; to fight the passage of a bill.

11.

to carry on (a battle, duel, etc.).

12.

to maintain (a cause, quarrel, etc.) by fighting or contending.

13.

to make (one's way) by fighting or striving.

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14.

to cause or set (a boxer, animal, etc.) to fight.

15.

to manage or maneuver (troops, ships, guns, planes, etc.) in battle.

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Idioms

16.

fight it out, to fight until a decision is reached: Let them fight it out among themselves.

17.

fight shy of. shy¹ (def. 12).

18.

fight with windmills. tilt¹ (def. 17).

Origin:
before 900; (v.) Middle English fi(g)hten, Old English fe(o)htan (cognate with German fechten); (noun) Middle English fi(g)ht, Old English feohte, (ge)feoht, derivative of the v. base

Related forms

fight·a·ble, adjective

fight·a·bil·i·ty, noun

fight·ing·ly, adverb

out·fight, verb (used with object), -fought, -fight·ing.

pre·fight, adjective

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re·fight, verb, -fought, -fight·ing.

un·fight·a·ble, adjective

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Synonyms
1, 2. encounter, engagement, affray, fray, action, skirmish, melee; scuffle, tussle, row, riot. Fight, combat, conflict, contest denote a struggle of some kind. Fight connotes a hand-to-hand struggle for supremacy, literally or in a figurative sense. Combat suggests an armed encounter, to settle a dispute. Conflict implies a bodily, mental, or moral struggle caused by opposing views, beliefs, etc. Contest applies to either a friendly or a hostile struggle for a definite prize or aim.

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World English Dictionary

fought (fɔːt)

—vb
	the past tense and past participle of fight

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Word Origin & History

fight

O.E. feohtan "to fight" (class III strong verb; past tense feaht, pp. fohten), from P.Gmc. *fekhtanan (cf. O.H.G. fehtan, Du. vechten, O.Fris. fiuhta), from PIE *pek- "to pluck out" (wool or hair), apparently with a notion of "pulling roughly." Spelling substitution of -gh- for a "hard H" sound was

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a M.E. scribal habit, especially before -t-. In some late O.E. examples, the middle consonant was represented by a yogh. Related: Fighting. The noun is from O.E. feohte, gefeoht.

fought

p.t. and pp. of fight. The pp. form foughten has been archaic since 18c. but occasionally appears in the phrase foughten field.

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