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单词 fighten
释义

fighten

German

Etymology

English fight + -en

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaɪ̯tn̩/
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Verb

fighten (weak, third-person singular present fightet, past tense fightete, past participle gefightet or (proscribed) gefighted, auxiliary haben)

  1. (colloquial, especially sports) to fight ferociously
    Synonym: kämpfen
    • 2020 September 4, “Deutschland und Spanien trennen sich unentschieden”, in Die Zeit:
      Löw war unmittelbar nach der Partie wegen des späten Gegentors verärgert. "Aber ich muss auch sagen, unsere Jungs haben alles gegeben und gefightet bis zum Schluss", sagte Löw im ZDF.
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Conjugation

Further reading

  • fighten” in Duden online
  • fighten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • fehten, feghten, feighten, fihhtenn, fiȝten

Etymology

From Old English feohtan.

Verb

fighten (third-person singular simple present fighteth, present participle fightende, first-/third-person singular past indicative faught, past participle foughten). Simple past faght and past participle foghten also occur. The present participle ending of Middle English varied with location.

  1. to fight; to battle; to quarrel
    • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalms 108:1-3”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
      The title of the hundrid and eiȝtthe ſalm. To victorye, the ſalm of Dauid. / God, holde thou not ſtille my preiſyng; for the mouth of the ſynner, and the mouth of the gileful man is openyd on me. / Thei ſpaken ayens me with a gileful tunge, and thei cumpassiden me with wordis of hatrede; and fouȝten ayens me with out cauſe.
      The title of the one hundred and eighth psalm: "To Victory; the Psalm of David". / God; don't hold still my praising, as the mouths of the sinners and the mouths of the guilty have opened against me. / They spoke against me with a guilty tongue, they acted against me with words of hatred, and they fought against me without justification.

Descendants

  • Scots: fecht, ficht
  • English: fight
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