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fought
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Fought \Fought\, imp. & p. p. of Fight .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And leaders have always fought the context. ▪ But in the end it shows total respect for the people who fought and died. ▪ Byers Green was designated category D. Peggy Hutchinson objected and fought and saved it from demolition. ▪ ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: fight )
Usage examples of fought.
As this was the first English sea fight in the Crusades, and the first in which a King of all England fought, the date should be set down: the 7th of June, 1191.
For she fought overwhelming numbers with a dauntless courage that nothing could surpass.
The French commander was Eustace the Monk, a Flemish hireling who had fought first for John and then for Louis.
Another and most important point about the Hundred Years War is this: that it does not stand alone in history, but is only the first of the two very different kinds of Hundred Years War which France and England have fought out.
The first big battle of the first Hundred Years War was fought in 1340 between the French and English fleets at Sluys, a little seaport up a river in the western corner of what is Holland now.
English for the first time fought a Spanish fleet and won a battle sometimes called Winchelsea and sometimes Espagnols-sur-mer or Spaniards-on-the-sea.
Their Genoese hirelings fought well at the beginning, but made off towards the end.
But England was torn in two by the Wars of the Roses, in which the great lords and their followers fought about the succession to the throne, each party wanting to have a king of its own choice.
West against East and of Christ against Mahomet by beating the Turks at Lepanto, near Corinth, in a great battle on landlocked water, a hundred miles from where the West had defeated the East when Greeks fought Persians at Salamis two thousand years before.
They were fought by soldiers under generals, not by sailors under admirals.
And we know that the Queen, her Councillors, and the great mass of English people would have fought the Spanish army bravely enough had it ever landed.
Sir Richard Grenville, fought her single-handed against a whole encircling fleet of Spain.
Two fresh enemies then closed in, grappled, boarded, fought with fury, and were barely driven back.
I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his Queen and Country, honour and religion.
The first battle was fought on the 3rd of June, 1665, and won by the British, who broke through the Dutch line.