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 →

2) To fight is to argue angrily. tree →

3) To fight for or against something is to try very hard to get or stop it: fight a fire, fight an illness. tree →

4) A fight is an act of fighting or an argument. tree →

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 →
• My brothers fight over the remote. tree →
• We had a silly fight about a game. tree →
• White blood cells fight germs. tree →
• Firefighters fought the fire all night. tree →
• She fought hard to win the race. tree →
• Walk away if someone wants a fight. tree →
• The town fought to save the old library. tree →
• The fight was short and sharp. tree →

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.
• Wars can end: peace treaties have been signed, and countries that once fought each other are friends now.
• Most language lives in ordinary days: breakfast, games, fights and homework, so your lessons had many of them.
• Red blood cells carry oxygen using iron-rich haemoglobin, white cells fight germs, and platelets help stop bleeding.
• Chimps groom each other to remove dirt and bugs, but also to make friends and make up after fights.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fight» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.