contend 'be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight' fight 'be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight' struggle 'be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight'
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skirmish 'COD: engage in a minor conflict or fight' struggle 'FN: to fight against an enemy or some kind of feature, esp. when the odds of victory are slim' engage 'FN: fight (esp. as a military action)' battle 'COD: fight or struggle tenaciously with an enemy or to achieve something. ' fight 'COD: take part in a violent struggle involving physical force or weapons.' war 'COD: engage in a war' scuffle 'COD: engage in a scuffle' brawl 'COD: take part in a brawl' duel 'COD: fight a duel' confront 'COD: stand or meet face to face with hostile intent. ' clash 'COD: (of two opposing groups) come abruptly into violent conflict. '
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Examples from WordNet
Siblings are always fighting Militant groups are contending for control of the country the tribesmen fought each other
Examples from VerbNet
Brenda met with Molly. Brenda and Molly met. Anne met Cathy. The committee met. The populace fought. Brenda fought with Molly. Brenda and Molly fought. Anne fought Cathy.
Examples from SemCor
In news broadcasts I consistently hear the foreign volunteers fighting in the Katanga_Army referred to as mercenaries. It is ironic that Washington is having to struggle so for a concept that for six years it bypassed as unreasonable. He was wounded, but fought on. If you want_to fight, go down on the sidewalk''. Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain_forest or warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach. The soldiers are fighting and the Americans are helping, he said, but in the fight against the Pathet_Lao the key factor is the villager himself. If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770 's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United_Nations? On their decisive battlefield Lincoln did not distinguish between them when he paid tribute to the`` brave men, living and dead, who fought here''. `` I did ask you to fight for the ball_club'', Phil said slowly. When the Korean_war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone_down fighting at the Little_Big_Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World_War_2,, the 7_th_Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition. Political, economic and military experts were all agreed that chaotic, mountainous little Laos was the last place in the world to fight a war- and they were probably right. By maintaining the nuclear deterrent, but gearing American military_forces to fight conventional wars too, Secretary_of_State Rusk junks bluff and nuclear brinkmanship and builds more muscle and greater safety into our military position. The Soviet_Union will fight neither a conventional nor a nuclear war over Berlin, and neither will its Warsaw_Pact allies. Peace is a worthy objective; but if we must choose between peace and keeping the Communists out of Berlin, then we must fight. If, say, the Russians intended to stop Tom_Jones' going_to the pub, then Tom_Jones would fight the Commies. With Hudson looking_on, his protege Greene picked a fight with the ship 's surgeon, Edward_Wilson. The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great_Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War_of_1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815. Yet though the Southern States lost the worst errors in their case, they did not lose the truth they fought for. That 's why the_British never got the tribes to fight for the King. And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga_Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and von_Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette_Escadrille in the early part of World_War 1, and of Chennault 's Flying_Tigers in the early days of World_War 2,. The nuclear war is already being fought, except that the bombs are not being dropped on targets-. Had the situation been reversed, had, for_instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New_England, there is little doubt that large_numbers of Southerners would have happily put_on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain. `` It would be like fighting the_French and Indian_War all_over again'', said one military_man. Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else. This damage had been done in the battle of Vientiane, fought three months earlier when four successive governments had ruled here in three days( December 9- 11, 1960). Author of the Albany_Plan of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state_government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal_Convention. Twenty-four_hours after independence the wild tribesmen commenced fighting each other. The Belgians would not fight for the privilege of being the detested pedagogue; rather_than teach where teaching was not wanted, they would wash_their_hands of the mess. They fought hard, but they were forgiving to former foes, and sought to prevent vindictive legislatures from confiscating Tory property in violation of the Treaty of 1783. The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure. He gripped the wheel hard to fight the despondency of defeat. The singer simply matches the poem to a mode; for_example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem:`` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad 's blood the crimson tulip stains; Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a_thousand foes, and he was one''. Of the Japanese private he says:`` He fought and marched till he died. To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head_of_State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in_all human truth there is some error, and in_all our error, some truth. `` Once, when the editor was just out of the hospital from a gallstone operation, Mrs._Calhoun and the mother of the bride went_out to his house and fought it out beside his bed. It may remind one of Russia, China or East_Berlin; but it can n't remind one of the freedom that Washington and the Continental soldiers fought for. Hoopla( Tar_Heel-Holiday_Hanover), a filly that wanted to trot, knocked herself October 31 and November_1 fighting the hopples. One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought. They train the mink and other animals to fight. They were blind_to the evidence that nothing could keep the Russian people fighting. He fought to the end to preserve it as a`` government of the people, by the people, for the people''. Ensign_Vesole and his gunners had fought valiantly, but they had no targets. `` You see, first_of_all and in_a_sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in_which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status_quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy 's power, no_matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future''. But he would fight for his own liberty rather_than for any abstract principle connected with_it- such_as`` cause''. It is being fought, moreover, in fairly close correspondence with the predictions of the soothsayers of the think_factories. With Republican presidents, he fought fair.