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# fight

«fight» in Mova's school dictionary: **to try to hurt someone using your body or weapons** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (fight, fights, fought, fighting); noun (a fight, fights)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To fight is to try to hurt someone using your body or weapons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#m1)

2) To fight is to argue angrily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#m2)

3) To fight for or against something is to try very hard to get or stop it: fight a fire, fight an illness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#m3)

4) A fight is an act of fighting or an argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school and feelings lessons, fighting with fists is never the way to solve problems: walk away, use words, get an adult. In health, the body fights germs; doctors fight illness. Firefighters fight fires. In stories, characters fight for what is right. Phrases: «pick a fight», «fight back», «fight for», «fight off», «put up a fight».

### examples

- Don't fight — tell a teacher instead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#x1)
- My brothers fight over the remote. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#x2)
- We had a silly fight about a game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#x3)
- White blood cells fight germs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#x4)
- Firefighters fought the fire all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#x5)
- She fought hard to win the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#x6)
- Walk away if someone wants a fight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#x7)
- The town fought to save the old library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#x8)
- The fight was short and sharp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/#x9)

### note

Irregular: fight, fought, fought («fawt»). «Fighter» is a person who fights. «Fight» about something and «fight with» someone. Do not confuse «fought» with «thought» or «fault».

### In the corpora

- [Drunk means so much alcohol that balance, speech and judgement stop working properly; drunk people can fall, fight and act unpredictably.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/13/)
- [Wars can end: peace treaties have been signed, and countries that once fought each other are friends now.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/16/)
- [Most language lives in ordinary days: breakfast, games, fights and homework, so your lessons had many of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/17/)
- [Red blood cells carry oxygen using iron-rich haemoglobin, white cells fight germs, and platelets help stop bleeding.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/9/)
- [Chimps groom each other to remove dirt and bugs, but also to make friends and make up after fights.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.