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| Shopping | The largest selection of FIGHT products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | fight, fighting, combat, scrap | The act of fighting |
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| 2 | fight | An intense verbal dispute | |
| 3 | fight | A boxing or wrestling match | |
| 4 | fight, battle, conflict, engagement | A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | |
| 5 | fight, competitiveness | An aggressive willingness to compete | |
| VERB | 1 | fight, contend, struggle | Be engaged in a fight |
| 2 | fight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defend | Fight against or resist strongly | |
| 3 | fight, struggle | Make a strenuous or labored effort | |
| 4 | fight, crusade, press, campaign, push, agitate | Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person |
| Sounds | fay't |
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| Rhymes | acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt... |
| Meaning | The act of fighting. Any contest or struggle. |
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| Examples | "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets" |
| Synonyms | fighting, combat, scrap |
| Parts | blow |
| Broader | conflict, struggle, battle |
| Narrower | gunfight, gunplay, shootout; brush, clash, encounter, skirmish; close-quarter fighting; dogfight; fencing; in-fighting; set-to; shock, impact; hassle, scuffle, tussle, dogfight, rough-and-tumble; duel, affaire d'honneur; fistfight, fisticuffs, slugfest; battering, banging; beating, whipping; affray, disturbance, fray, ruffle; brawl, free-for-all; knife fight, snickersnee, cut-and-thrust; rumble, gang fight; single combat |
| Verbs | fight |
| Meaning | An intense verbal dispute. |
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| Examples | "a violent fight over the bill is expected in the Senate" |
| Broader | controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing |
| Verbs | fight |
| Meaning | A boxing or wrestling match. |
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| Examples | "the fight was on television last night" |
| Broader | boxing, pugilism, fisticuffs |
| Verbs | fight |
| Meaning | A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war. |
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| Synonyms | battle, conflict, engagement |
| Part of | war, warfare |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| Broader | military action, action |
| Narrower | Armageddon; pitched battle; naval battle; combat, armed combat; dogfight; assault |
| Instances | Battle of Britain; Drogheda |
| Verbs | fight |
| Meaning | An aggressive willingness to compete. |
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| Examples | "the team was full of fight" |
| Synonyms | competitiveness |
| Broader | aggressiveness |
| Verbs | fight |
| Meaning | Be engaged in a fight. Carry on a fight. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s PP |
| Model | Sam and Sue fight; Sam cannot fight Sue |
| Examples | "Siblings are always fighting" |
| Synonyms | contend, struggle |
| See also | fight off |
| Narrower | bear down; fistfight; join battle; tug; fight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defend; settle, get back; fight back; battle, combat; war; attack, assail; duel; joust; chicken-fight, chickenfight; tourney; feud; skirmish; bandy; fence; box; spar; scuffle, tussle; wrestle; engage, wage |
| Entails | compete, vie, contend |
| Entailed by | defend |
| Nouns | fight; fight; fighter; fight, fighting; fighter |
| Meaning | Fight against or resist strongly. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Examples | "Don't fight it!" |
| Synonyms | oppose, fight back, fight down, defend |
| Broader | contend, fight, struggle |
| Narrower | recalcitrate; resist, stand, fend; resist, hold out, withstand, stand firm; repel, repulse, fight off, rebuff, drive back |
| Nouns | fighter; fighter; fight |
| Meaning | Make a strenuous or labored effort. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | struggle |
| Broader | try, seek, attempt, essay, assay |
| Narrower | tug, labor, labour, push, drive; flounder |
| Nouns | fight |
| Meaning | 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. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Synonyms | crusade, press, campaign, push, agitate |
| Similar to | advertise, advertize, promote, push |
| Broader | advertise, advertize, promote, push |
| Nouns | fighter |
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