fought

[fawt]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of fight.

fought

/ fɔːt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of fight

Other Word Forms

• unfought adjective
• well-fought adjective

Example Sentences

For Ukraine and its allies, the conflict is not a personal dispute but a war of aggression being fought by an authoritarian state, with imperial ambitions, against a European democracy.

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The protests started in July 2024 against civil service job quotas for relatives of those who fought in the 1971 war but soon escalated into a mass movement to overthrow Hasina.

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But she fought her way forward in her own way.

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“You can’t just detain someone; you have to charge them. But killing someone? You can say they fought back, which is exactly what they said with respect to extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.”

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The 44-year-old was arrested in Liverpool on 14 June and initially fought his extradition, claiming he would be in fear of his life if he was held in a Spanish prison.

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• force 
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• oppose 
• resist 
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