fought
pronunciation
How to pronounce fought in British English:
UK [fɔ:t]
How to pronounce fought in American English:
US [fɔt]
Word Origin
- fought
- past tense and past participle of fight (v.). The past participle form foughten (Old English fohten) has been archaic since 18c. but occasionally appears in the phrase foughten field.
Example
- 1. These warriors called maya had fought the spanish .
- 2. Mrs clinton has also fought more clumsily than her opponent .
- 3. My grandfather fought the nazis and was wounded .
- 4. Hardline opponents of any bail-out have fought themselves to exhaustion .
- 5. But china fought more recently with vietnam than with any other country .