Word Finder - fought

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To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

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A wounded animal will fight like a maniac, relentless, savage and murderous.

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To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc.

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The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour.

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To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.

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He fought for the Democrats in the last election.

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To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).

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The battle was fought just over that hill.

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To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.

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My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II.

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To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.

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The government pledged to fight corruption.

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To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.

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to fight cocks; to fight one's ship

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Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.

She hadn't fought him since.

She fought for control.

The battle was fought and thousands were killed on both sides.

Her parents fought and forgave.

She fought back tears, not wanting to cry in front of him.

She desperately fought the steering wheel for control, but the car weaved all over the road.

None of the five fought him or made excuses.

We watched as a Rufus Hummingbird fought off a Ruby Throated for territory.

Gabe fought, not caring what happened.

I know we wouldn't have fought you for it.

He fought and conquered.

They fought with more pertinacity than bulldogs.

She fought back the urge to run.

The woman fought him, and he hauled her to her feet.

She always laughed when the chickens fought each other over it.

Why had he fought the marauder?

The struggle between the old views and the new was long and stubbornly fought out in physical philosophy.

Lana scrambled and fought, tears on her face as she realized what she'd done in leaving the Peak.

If I fought off a guardsman as a human, I can take on an Other with my powers back.

She fought him harder, tears in her eyes.

Though she fought sleep, it started to claim her anyway.

Thanks to him, my parents fought and I had an unattractive name.

I fought side by side with his older brother years ago at the end of the war; I know the type of honor that runs in his family.

She felt the cold, black glare and fought the urge to run back inside the clinic.

He had fought a battle with his enemies, the English.

He retreated to the corner and sobbed while she fought the effects of the drug.

The chickens fought for position in the tiny coop door as they watched her pour a bucket of water into the tire.

Payara and Birket in Kordofan quickly fell, and a few days before the battle of Tell-el-Kebir was fought, the mahdi, with a large force, was besieging El Obeid.

On the 10th of February an action was fought at Kirbekan with about 800 of the enemy, entailing a loss of 10 killed, including Major-General Earle, and 47 wounded.

Mahdism, however, spread over Darfur in spite of Slatins efforts to stay it He fought no fewer than twenty-seven actions in various parts of his province, but his own troops, in course of time, became infected with the new faith and deserted him.

His army, however, under Fiki Adam, fought a fierce battle close to El Fasher on the 22nd, which resulted in its defeat and dispersion, and Abu Gemaiza himself dying the following day, the movement collapsed.

In 1893 the dervish amir, Abu Mariam, fought with the Dinka tribe and was killed and his force destroyed, the fugitives taking refuge in Shakka.

Johannes Carsten Hauch (q.v.; 1790-1872) first distinguished himself as a disciple of Ohlenschlger, and fought under him in the strife against the old school and Baggesen.

Philip now took the offensive himself, and in manoeuvring to get a good cavalry ground upon which to fight he offered battle (July 27), on the plain east of Bouvines and the river Marque - the same plain on which in 1794 the brilliant cavalry action of Willems was fought.

Nine general engagements were fought with varying fortunes, though the place and date of two of them have not been recorded.

One naval engagement was certainly fought under ZEthelwulf (851), and earlier ones, possibly in 833 and 840.

The battle of Kunersdorf, fought on the 12th of August 1759, was the most disastrous to him in the course of the war.

No general engagement was fought, and after a great many delays the treaty of Teschen was signed on the 13th of May 1779.

The battle, fought in densely wooded country till nightfall, was severe but indecisive.

Chronological and other proofs show that if such a suit was fought at all, it must have been in connexion with another set of Darer's woodcuts, the first seventeen of the Life of the Virgin.

He fought under John, duke of Bedford, at Verneuil on the 17th of August 1424, and throughout the next four years was Salisbury's chief lieutenant in the direction of the war.

On the twenty-fourth of August the battle of the Shevardino Redoubt was fought, on the twenty-fifth not a shot was fired by either side, and on the twenty-sixth the battle of Borodino itself took place.

The affairs of Europe during the years when Habsburg and Bourbon fought their domestic battles with the blood of noble races may teach grave lessons to all thoughtful men of our days, but none bitterer, none fraught with more insulting recollections, than to the Italian people, who were haggled over like dumb driven cattle in the mart of chaffering kings.

The dispute was fought out in Flanders; but Spanish Lombardy felt the shock, as usual, of the French and Austrian dynasties.

The Italian cause had been crushed, but revolution and war had strengthened the feeling of unity, for Neapolitans had fought for Venice, Lombards for Rome, Piedmontese for all Italy.

The Garibaldians, mowed down by the new French chassept rifles, fought until their last cartridges were exhausted, and retreated the next day towards the Italian frontier, leaving 800 prisoners.

Victor Emmanuel was sincerely anxious to assist Napoleon, for in spite of Nice and Savoy and Mentana he felt a chivalrous desire to help the man who had fought for Italy.

Near the town, round a point marked by an obelisk, was fought in 1471 the decisive battle between the houses of York and Lancaster, in which the earl of Warwick fell and the Lancastrians were totally defeated.

The battle of the Herrings (February 1429) was fought in order to cover the march of a convoy of Lenten food to the English army besieging Orleans.

He went with the emperor to Tunis and fought for him in France.