(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.
Scrappy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
(2) We worked awfully hard for this Premier League status and we don’t want to give it up.” Gylfi Sigurdsson’s 61st-minute strike – his sixth goal in 10 games – settled a scrappy Liberty Stadium contest that failed to spark into life until the Iceland international finished from substitute Leroy Fer’s pass.
(3) The results may have looked scrappy and provisional but, coupled with initially affordable land prices, this laissez-faire planning strategy seems to have worked, even if much land has since been redeveloped.
(4) If American voters (or journalists) still expect their candidates to be – in the words of a popular musical – young, scrappy and hungry, they have not been paying attention.
(5) Norwich’s play was more scrappy than usual but they looked the more dangerous side on the occasions when they did manage to piece moves together.
(6) "It was sheer quality and class to win what was a scrappy game.
(7) Enough that the Nation have been slow to embrace a team of scrappy rough and tumble hard working bearded ballplayers that won 97 games and crushed opponents with their relentless offense.
(8) The Black Keys are not underdogs any more, but they maintain a scrappiness of ethos.
(9) The following day, outside his church office window, children played on swings in a scrappy playground as he prepared to host yesterday's funeral of Timothy Thomas.
(10) 8.29pm BST 42 min: The games got a bit scrappy in recent minutes and is being punctuated by a series of niggly fouls.
(11) Inverdale provoked outrage when he said that women's champion Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova so you have to be scrappy and fight?
(12) Scrappy, barely deserved, victories are hardly Wenger's hallmark but this one delivered an important message to Manchester City and company.
(13) 4.55am BST Spurs 95-95 Heat - 5:00 remaining OT Graham Parker (@KidWeil) @HunterFelt Hang on...I just had a scrappy midfield slog to write about.
(14) It's been a tight, fairly scrappy start from both sides.
(15) 2.04am GMT Final thoughts Was a scrappy affair, enlivened during that brief burst of second half goals.
(16) It's all getting a little scrappy again, which will suit Chile down to the ground.
(17) The X-Wings are, of course, the scrappy space fighters that the good guys destroy Death Stars in.
(18) 6.38pm BST 77 mins: The game has become a bit scrappy now, as tension and tiredness perhaps overcome the players a bit.
(19) A French ballistic missile launched from the left foot of Zinedine Zidane on the stroke of half-time proved enough to settle a final that mixed some scrappy, foul-ridden football with touches of the sublime and was rarely short of dramatic impact.
(20) O'Sullivan, who had won the afternoon session 5-3, took the first frame of the evening, a scrappy affair in which both players had a number of chances.