(v. i.) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.
(v. i.) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
(v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.
(v. t.) To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.
(v. t.) To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.
(v. i.) A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
(v. i.) A struggle or contest of any kind.
(v. i.) Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.
(v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.
Example Sentences:
(1) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(2) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(3) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
(4) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(5) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(6) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(7) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(8) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(9) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(10) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(11) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
(12) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(13) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
(14) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
(15) We need to put our heads together, and get our act together to fight corruption.
(16) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
(17) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(18) That’s why I thought: ‘I hope Tyson wins – even if he never gives me a shot.’ As long as the heavyweight titles are out of Germany we could have some interesting fights.
(19) Everyone expressed commitment to fight climate change.
(20) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
Hothead
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Getty Images Böhnhardt is said to have been more hotheaded.
(2) The deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, argued that the delivery of the S-300 system had been previously agreed with the Syrian government in Damascus and would be a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
(3) Since taking office as prime minister for the second time a year ago, stocky, tousle-haired Abe, 59, has avoided hotheaded actions and kept his political powder dry.
(4) In the next stage, more Israelis will take to the streets and take the law into their own hands, and we have no shortage of hotheads,” warned Alex Fishman, security correspondent for Israel’s top-selling daily, Yedioth Ahronoth.
(5) Make the opposition work for their concessions, and when the deal is struck make them feel that they have done well.” But some reflections may reassure sceptics worried that the British team is led by hotheads.
(6) In words apparently aimed at the UK, Sergei Ryabkov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, described the missiles as a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
(7) Shogo Suzuki, an expert on Sino-Japanese relations and visiting associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, said: "All it takes is one hothead to pull the trigger and the whole thing spirals out of control.
(8) In Moscow, the foreign ministry said Lavrov had asked Kerry to "pressure Kiev to stop hotheads from provoking a bloody conflict and to encourage the Ukrainian authorities to strictly fulfil their obligations".
(9) Perhaps with a cry of "Put your dukes up, Obama", as the impetuous hothead hurdles over seats to uphold the family honour.
(10) Wise and venerable consultants, offering sympathy for those hotheaded kids, do actually have a horse in the race themselves.
(11) Michelle Dockery – now known all over the world as the frosty Lady Mary – has a successful career as a jazz singer and has performed with Sadie and the Hotheads, a band formed by Elizabeth McGovern , who plays her on-screen mother, the Countess of Grantham.
(12) Analysts, law enforcement sources and cartel contacts agree generational change is contributing to the unease: traditionalists often point to the hotheaded and exhibitionist tendencies of such narco “juniors”, whose inherited power and wealth contrast with the rags-to-riches struggles of their fathers.
(13) Prosecutors allege he intentionally killed her after a fight in the early hours of 14 February 2013 and have sought to paint him as a hothead with an inflated sense of entitlement and an obsession with firearms.
(14) Lippi threw his energies into creating a compact group of players with no room for hotheads, but pundits were quick to point out that the team he fielded against Slovakia showed no sign of team spirit.
(15) Abedi began wearing more traditional Arab dress and was seen by one neighbour saying Islamic prayers loudly in the street, but he remained hotheaded and volatile, picking fights with neighbours over issues such as where their cars were parked.
(16) It was the Vienna convention that in 1981 protected a young hotheaded diplomat by the name of Moussa Koussa , who publicly approved the planned assassination of Libyan dissidents.
(17) Sims may love food, family or mischief; they may be hotheaded bookworms, gloomy loners or goofball romantics; they could be driven by dreamy creativity or pure financial greed.
(18) But it'll be hard to beat opening for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival last year with my band, Sadie And The Hotheads .
(19) My new favourite Game Of Thrones castmember is now Cersei Lannister, for whom I didn't care much last time, but now she's out of the shadow of that wheezing hothead King Robert, is growlingly sublime.
(20) But we know that both Kennedy and Khrushchev believed it was important to de-escalate, important to control the hotheads in each of their governments, and important enough to risk their own leadership to do so.