fight meaning
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[faɪt] [fʌɪt] [-aɪt] 
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- NounPLfights
- An occasion of fighting.
- One of them got stabbed to death during the fight.
- (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
- A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
- Watch your language, are you looking for a fight?
- (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
- I'm going to Nick’s to watch the big fight tomorrow night.
- A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
- ‘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?
- The will or ability to fight.
- 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.
- OBS A screen for the combatants in ships.
- An occasion of fighting.
- VerbSGfightsPRfightingPTfoughtPPfoughtPPfoughten
- VI To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour.
- A wounded animal will fight like a maniac.
- VI To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
- He fought for the Democrats in the last election.
- VT To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
- The battle was fought just over that hill.
- VT To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
- My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II.
- VT To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
- The government pledged to fight corruption.
- VT (archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
- to fight cocks; to fight one's ship
- VI To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Bankers, who must fight to stay even with inflation and face an uneven credit supply (even many "greenlined"' areas didn't get loans during the recession of 1974-1975)
- The escalating crisis between England and her American colonies came to a head when fighting broke out in 1775.
- The crossed hammer and sickle symbolise the union of workers and peasantry in their fight for their rights.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- One can feel the threatening energy of the thought-forms left in the room after a tense fight.
- A chilly tingliness in my fingers told me that I should have put on gloves before joining the snowball fight.
- Old couples sometimes will play tapes at each other during a fight.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of fight in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "fight" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a reciprocal verb, an intransitive verb, a transitive verb and a verbs by inflection type.