fight

1. Senses relating to physical conflict:Examples: "My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II."transitive

2. Senses relating to physical conflict:Examples: "Our soldiers fought the battle just over that hill."; "I have fought a good fight."; "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses."transitive

3. Senses relating to physical conflict:Examples: "A wounded animal will fight tooth and nail; relentless, savage and murderous."intransitive

4. Senses relating to physical conflict:Examples: "The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour."reciprocal

5. Senses relating to physical conflict:Examples: "And so we made their grave where they should lie Close side by side, as they had fought their tank Through every fight, arm touching arm. We made it deep, that nothing of the conflict they had left above Should break into their peace."; "to fight cocks; to fight one’s ship"causative

6. (intransitive) To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success.Examples: "He fought for the Democrats in the last election."; "Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. Then, for a jiffy, I hung on and fought for breath."; "[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors."intransitive