fight
41fight — 1. verb 1) two men were fighting Syn: brawl, exchange blows, scuffle, grapple, wrestle; informal scrap; Brit.; informal have a punch up; N.Amer.; informal rough house; Austral. / NZ; informal stoush 2) …
42fight — verb (past and past participle fought) 1》 take part in a violent struggle involving physical force or weapons. ↘engage in (a war or contest). ↘quarrel or argue. ↘(fight someone/thing off) defend oneself against an attack by someone or …
43fight — I. verb (fought; fighting) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English feohtan; akin to Old High German fehtan to fight and perhaps to Latin pectere to comb more at pectinate Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. a. to contend in battle… …
44fight — see fight fire with fire councils of war never fight when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers while two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day …
45fight — [OE] The deadly earnestness of fighting seems to have had its etymological origins in the rather petty act of pulling someone’s hair. Fight, together with German fechten and Dutch vechten, goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *fekhtan, which… …
46fight — [OE] The deadly earnestness of fighting seems to have had its etymological origins in the rather petty act of pulling someone’s hair. Fight, together with German fechten and Dutch vechten, goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *fekhtan, which… …
47fight — Hakakā, paio, kaua; mokomoko (general free for all, including wrestling and boxing); pā ume ume. Also: kūpāpā, kolopā, paika, hu alepo, makawalu, pilikua.See saying, helu 4, wai au au, fighter, cockfighting, wrestling. Specialized types… …
48fight — Verb: To strive for victory in battle or over an opponent in single combat; an attempt to defeat an opponent or the enemy by blows or weapons. Sullivan v State, 67 Miss 346, 351. To work hard for a cause against opposition; to strive for success… …
49fight — I. v. n. 1. Combat, war, battle, contend (in arms), draw the sword, unsheathe the sword, measure swords, take arms, take up arms, go to war let slip the dogs of war, try the fortune of arms or battle. 2. Do battle, ply one s weapons, contend,… …
50Fight Club (novel) — Fight Club   First …
