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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Negroes Fighting in a Tunnel at Night (1882) by Paul Bilhaud, here shown in the 1887 version appropriated by Alphonse Allais as published in Album primo-avrilesque (April fool-ish Album)

Pollice Verso (1872) by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Dempsey and Firpo (1924) by George Bellows

The Dragon Slaying the Companions of Cadmus 1588 by Goltzius

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1. To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
   • The two boxers have been fighting for more than half an hour.
   • A wounded animal will fight like a maniac.
2. To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
   • He fought for the Democrats in the last election.
3. To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
   • The battle was fought just over that hill.
4. To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
   • My grandfather fought the Nazis in the Second World War.
5. To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
   • The government pledged to fight corruption.

See also

See mayhem, violence, Fight Club, fight-or-flight response, Fight the Power

• Combat