fight

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. Senses relating to physical conflict:
2. Senses relating to physical conflict:
3. Senses relating to physical conflict:
4. Senses relating to physical conflict:
5. Senses relating to physical conflict:
6. To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.
7. To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
8. Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize.

Noun

1. An occasion of fighting.
2. A battle between opposing armies.
3. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
4. A boxing or martial arts match.
5. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
6. The will or ability to fight.
7. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships; an arming.

Concepts

combattre

se battre

combat

lutter

lutte

bagarre

bataille

querelle

dispute

battre

batailler

rixe

bagarrer

se bagarrer

guerre

conflit

guerroyer

luter

combativité

concourir

compétitivité

batterie

altercation

faire la guerre

campagne

affronter

accrochage

action

escrimer

rencontrer

se frapper

construction

attaquer

se crêper le chignon

s'écharper

défendre

croisade

militer

pousser

compétitivité économique

mêlée

se disputer

se quereller

s’empoigner

s’engueuler

différends

mélée

baroud

controverse

chamaillis

brouille

chamaillerie

chicaya

picoterie

picotons

pique

querelles

activité militaire

combats

combattent

combattez

combattons

escarmouche

hostilités

lutte armée

résister

assaillir

lutter contre

mener campagne

se débattre avec

se démener

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/faɪt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English fighten, from Old English feohtan (“to fight, combat, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, tease, shear, struggle with”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear”).
Cognate with Scots fecht (“to fight”), West Frisian fjochtsje, fjuchte (“to fight”), Dutch vechten (“to fight”), Low German fechten (“to fight”), German fechten (“to fight, fence”), Swedish fäkta (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons), to wave vigorously (and carelessly) with one's arms”), Latin pectō (“comb, thrash”, verb), Albanian pjek (“to hit, strive, fight”), Ancient Greek πέκω (pékō, “comb or card wool”, verb). Related also to Old English feht (“wool, shaggy pelt, fleece”).

Phrases

Ilias won the fight by split decision .

Ilias a remporté le combat par décision partagée.