Definitions for fight

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Spelling: [fahyt]

IPA: /faɪt/

Fight is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in fight (fghit).

Definitions for fight

noun

1. a battle or combat.
2. any contest or struggle:
3. an angry argument or disagreement:
4. Boxing. a bout or contest.
5. a game or diversion in which the participants hit or pelt each other with something harmless:
6. ability, will, or inclination to fight:

Idioms

1. fight it out, to fight until a decision is reached:
2. fight shy of. shy1 (def 12).
3. fight with windmills. tilt1 (def 18).

verb (used with object)

1. to contend with in battle or combat; war against:
2. to contend with or against in any manner:
3. to carry on (a battle, duel, etc.).
4. to maintain (a cause, quarrel, etc.) by fighting or contending.
5. to make (one's way) by fighting or striving.
6. to cause or set (a boxer, animal, etc.) to fight.
7. to manage or maneuver (troops, ships, guns, planes, etc.) in battle.

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in battle or in single combat; attempt to defend oneself against or to subdue, defeat, or destroy an adversary.
2. to contend in any manner; strive vigorously for or against something:

Origin of fight

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

Examples for fight

The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.

She says she will have to fight in “other ways” to get her client freed.

Are you—do you mean you're going to fight the other man, too?

While Kurdish forces have advanced on some fronts in Iraq, the fight here in Syria seems far from over yet.

If there is actually a war on Christmas, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson seems ready to lead the fight.

Now he was about to go out into the great world, and fight his own way.

As the fight raged on, Ahmed and the three women fighters who were part of the mission, sent out calls for help.

These were not the men to endure privations and fight their country's battles.

It caused them to fight for the sole possession of this Paradise upon Earth.

George was anxious to do the right, but did not know how to fight against the wrong.