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fought

fought
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [fawt]
    • /fɔt/
    • /fɔːt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [fawt]
    • /fɔt/

Definitions of fought word

  • verb fought simple past tense and past participle of fight. 1
  • noun fought a battle or combat. 1
  • noun fought any contest or struggle: a fight for recovery from an illness. 1
  • noun fought an angry argument or disagreement: Whenever we discuss politics, we end up in a fight. 1
  • noun fought Boxing. a bout or contest. 1
  • noun fought a game or diversion in which the participants hit or pelt each other with something harmless: a pillow fight; a water fight. 1

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Origin of fought

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; (v.) Middle English fi(g)hten, Old English fe(o)htan (cognate with German fechten); (noun) Middle English fi(g)ht, Old English feohte, (ge)feoht, derivative of the v. base

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Fought

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

fought popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 87% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

fought usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for fought

noun fought

  • contested — causing dispute or argument
  • rounded — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • battled — Simple past tense and past participle of battle.
  • clashed — Simple past tense and past participle of clash.
  • combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.

verb fought

  • boxed — A boxed set or collection of things is sold in a box.
  • challenged — If you say that someone is challenged in a particular way, you mean that they have a disability in that area. Challenged is often combined with inappropriate words for humorous effect.
  • met — simple past tense and past participle of meet1 .
  • protected — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • resisted — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.

Antonyms for fought

noun fought

  • accorded — to be in agreement or harmony; agree.
  • calmed — Simple past tense and past participle of calm.

verb fought

  • agreed — If people are agreed on something, they have reached a joint decision on it or have the same opinion about it.
  • yielded — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
  • believed — to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
  • upheld — simple past tense and past participle of uphold.
  • accepted — Accepted ideas are agreed by most people to be correct or reasonable.

Top questions with fought

  • who fought in ww1?
  • why was the civil war fought?
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  • who fought in the civil war?
  • who fought in the french and indian war?
  • who fought in world war 1?
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