Definition of Fought

1. Verb. (past of fight) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fought

1. fight [v] - See also: fight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fought

foudroyant
fouds
fouer
fouest
fouet
fouets
fouette
fouettes
fouetté
fougade
fougades
fougerite
fough
fought (current term)
foughten
foughtier
foughty
foul
foul-mouthed
foul-smelling
foul-spoken
foul-up
foul-weather gear
foul anchor
foul ball
foul bill of health
foul language

Literary usage of Fought

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1900)
"And in the meantime as he stood and fought, that lady whose was the chamber went out slily at her postern, and without the gates she found La Cote Male ..."

2. Dictionary of Battles from the Earliest Date to the Present Time by Thomas Benfield Harbottle (1904)
"fought 835, when the men of Wessex, under Egbert, totally defeated the Danes ... fought November, 1745, between 60000 Prussians, under Frederick the Great, ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... ploughing up the field ; So either Ajax, moving side by side, Each close to the other fought. Many and brave The followers of the Son of Telamon, ..."

4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"524), that Scales had fought a beast that day, but should fight a man ... On the 12th they met on foot with axes, and fought so fiercely that the king, ..."

5. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"CHAPTER XVI HOW THE YELLOW COG fought THE TWO ROVER GALLEYS THE three vessels had been sweeping swiftly westwards, the cog still well to the front, ..."

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