fight

fight has 18 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. a boxing or wrestling match; "the fight was on television last night"
• n.. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
• n.. the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"