Clues for the word "FIGHT"
We've had 63 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 113 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 15, 2025.
Definition of fight
- v. i. - To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.
- v. i. - To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
- v. t. - To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.
- v. t. - To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours.
- v. t. - To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship.
- v. i. - A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
- v. i. - A struggle or contest of any kind.
- v. i. - Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him.
- v. i. - A screen for the combatants in ships.
Referring Clues
- Quote, part 6
- "___ fire with fire"
- Playground shout
- Duke it out
- Boxing match
- Ring event
- Compete in the boxing ring
- Bout
- Don't go quietly
- Hostile engagement
- Yell at a brawl's beginning
- Brawl
- What a bully might provoke
- Tussle
- Battle
- Skirmish
- Scuffle
- Quarrel
- It moves along via a series of belts
- Perform on canvas in an arena
- Box
- Pugnacity
- Struggle
- All hits all the time?
- Get in a tussle
- See 5-Across
- With 34 Across, boxing ring
- What boxers do
- Scrap metal's last to be removed in plane trip
- What the Beastie Boys have to do for their right to party?
- Combat
- Campaign against - quarrel
- Struggle to change a gift, being out of breath!
- Strive to give height to a tree!
- Setter separates three neighbours from 26 starting to quarrel
- Struggle to find the right rhyme
- See 1 down
- Squadron loses fifty in battle
- Set-to
- (Take part in) battle
- Conflict
- Strive - struggle
- Contest picture at altitude
- TGIF back without first sign of hiccuping bout
- Argument
- Oppose steps to get rid of student
- Struggle with vision after change of leader
- Good hospital entering appropriate contest
- Get a picture hat without a struggle
- Argue
- Refuse to submit
- To make a gift when out of breath, must be a struggle!
- Fisticuffs
- Boxing contest
- Lindbergh initially absent from aviation contest
- Fray
- Two in a row?
- Struggle to get the right rhyme
- A set-to
- Making-up preceder
- Not give up, say
- Rout about fifty in the skirmish
- Resist strongly
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 15, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 11, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 23, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 20, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 17, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 16, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 01, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 09, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 14, 2024
- USA Today - May 22, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 29, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 18, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 08, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 14, 2024
- Daily American - December 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 06, 2023
- Your Life Choices - October 05, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 03, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - August 29, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 10, 2023
- Your Life Choices - May 21, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - March 28, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 20, 2023
- And in 83 more crossword puzzles...