fought
- 1Simple past and past participle of fight.
The two armies fought for control of the bridge all winter.
He had fought several lawsuits before the company finally settled.
Note
One spelling does double duty: it is the plain past (they fought all winter) and the participle after have (they had fought for years). Because fight takes objects such as a battle, a war, a cause or a lawsuit, the participle also builds passives: the war was fought on two fronts. When fight has no object, as in simply contending or striving, the participle appears only with have.
The campaign was fought street by street.
It was a cause fought for by three generations of reformers.
fought is a form of fight
fight, verb: To take part in a violent physical struggle or war, against someone or with each other, or to wage a battle or war. Full entry
- Spelling
- fight → fought: irregular (no -ed)
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