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|passage=‘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?}} |
|passage=‘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?}} |
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#*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-08-10|volume=408|issue=8848|magazine={{w|The Economist}} |
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|title=[http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21583277-worlds-biggest-polluter-going-green-it-needs-speed-up-transition-can-china21583270-new-zealands-plan-regulate-designer-drugs-better-trying-ban-them-and-failing-new A new prescription] |
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|passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the '''fight''' against synthetic drugs.}} |
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#: {{usex|I'll put up a '''fight''' to save this company.|lang=en}} |
#: {{usex|I'll put up a '''fight''' to save this company.|lang=en}} |
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# The [[will]] or [[ability]] to fight. |
# The [[will]] or [[ability]] to fight. |
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#: {{usex|As soon as he saw the size of his opponent, all the '''fight''' went out of him.|lang=en}} |
#: {{usex|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.|lang=en}} |
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#: {{usex|That little guy have a little '''fight''' inside him after all.|lang=en}} |
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Revision as of 21:54, 27 September 2013
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) fighten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) feohtan, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic Template:term/t, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European Template:term/t. Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots (deprecated template usage) fecht, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] West Frisian (deprecated template usage) fjochtsje, (deprecated template usage) fjuchte, Dutch (deprecated template usage) vechten, Low German (deprecated template usage) fechten, German (deprecated template usage) fechten, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) pectō (verb), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Albanian (deprecated template usage) pjek, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) πέκω (pékō, verb). Related also to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) feht.
Verb
fight (third-person singular simple present fights, present participle fighting, simple past fought, past participle fought or (archaic) foughten)
- (deprecated template usage) (intransitive) 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.
- (deprecated template usage) (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
- He fought for the Democrats in the last election.
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
- The battle was fought just over that hill.
- Macaulay
- He had to fight his way through the world.
- Bible, 2 Timothy iv. 7
- I have fought a good fight.
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
- My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II.
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
- The government pledged to fight corruption.
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
- to fight cocks; to fight one's ship
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:fight
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English feoht, from the verb. Corresponding to Dutch gevecht, German Gefecht.
Noun
fight (plural fights)
- An occasion of fighting.
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- (deprecated template usage) (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
- A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
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- (deprecated template usage) (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
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- A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
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- The will or ability to fight.
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Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:fight
Derived terms
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