fight

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• intransitive v. To attempt to harm or gain power over an adversary by blows or with weapons.
• intransitive v. Sports To engage in boxing or wrestling.
• intransitive v. To engage in a quarrel; argue: They are always fighting about money.
• intransitive v. To strive vigorously and resolutely: fought against graft; fighting for her rights.
• transitive v. To contend with physically or in battle.
• transitive v. To wage or carry on (a battle).
• transitive v. To contend for, by or as if by combat: "I now resolved that Calais should be fought to the death” ( Winston S. Churchill).
• transitive v. Sports To box or wrestle against in a ring.
• transitive v. To participate in (a boxing match, for example).
• transitive v. To set (a boxer, for example) in combat with another. See Synonyms at oppose.
• transitive v. To contend with or struggle against: fight cancer; fight temptation.
• transitive v. To try to prevent the development or success of.
• transitive v. To make (one's way) by struggle or striving: fought my way to the top.
• n. A confrontation between opposing groups in which each attempts to harm or gain power over the other, as with bodily force or weapons.
• n. A quarrel or conflict.
• n. A physical conflict between two or more individuals.
• n. Sports A boxing or wrestling match.
• n. A struggle to achieve an objective. See Synonyms at conflict.
• n. The power or inclination to fight; pugnacity: I just didn't have any fight left in me.
• fight off To defend against or drive back (a hostile force, for example).
• idiom fight fire with fire To combat one evil or one set of negative circumstances by reacting in kind.
• idiom fight shy of To avoid meeting or confronting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• v. To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
• v. To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
• v. To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
• v. To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
• v. To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
• n. An occasion of fighting.
• n. A battle between opposing armies.
• n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
• n. A boxing or martial arts match.
• n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
• n. The will or ability to fight

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• intransitive v. To strive or contened 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.
• intransitive v. To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
• transitive v. 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.
• transitive v. To contend with in battle; to war against
• transitive v. To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight
• n. 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.
• n. A struggle or contest of any kind.
• n. Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity.
• n. A screen for the combatants in ships.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• To engage in battle or in single combat; contend in arms; attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an adversary by physical means.
• To contend in any way; struggle for the gaining of an end; strive vigorously: as, to fight against disease; to fight in a political campaign.
• To contend with in battle; war against: as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles.
• To contend against in any manner.
• To carry on or wage, as a battle or other contest.
• To win or gain by battle or contest of any kind; sustain by fighting.
• To cause to fight; manage or manœuver in a fight: as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.
• n. A battle; an attempt to overcome or defeat by physical means; a contest with natural or other weapons.
• n. Any contest or struggle.
• n. A bulkhead or other screen designed for the protection of the men during a battle; a bulwark. See close-fights.
• n. Power or inclination for fighting.
• n. Synonyms Conflict, Combat, etc. (see battle); fray, affray, encounter, affair, brush.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• n. a boxing or wrestling match
• v. exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
• v. make a strenuous or labored effort
• v. be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
• n. an aggressive willingness to compete
• n. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
• v. fight against or resist strongly
• n. an intense verbal dispute
• n. the act of fighting; any contest or struggle