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forfight

forfight verb: to defend.

Verb

forfight (third-person singular simple present forfights, present participle forfighting, simple past forfought, past participle forfought or forfoughten)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To defend.
  2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To exhaust or overfatigue (oneself) with fighting.

Forms of forfight

third-person singular presentforfights
present participleforfighting
pastforfought
past participleforfought
past participleforfoughten
alternative formforefight
alternative formforfecht

Origin of forfight

From Middle English forfighten, forfehten (“to fight for, defend; exhaust with fighting”), equivalent to for- + fight.

Words formed from forfight

  • forfighter
  • forfought
  • forfoughten

Questions about forfight

What does forfight mean?
Forfight means to defend.
What part of speech is forfight?
Forfight is a verb.
What is the past tense of forfight?
The past tense of forfight is forfought.

Words near forfight in the dictionary

  1. forficiform
  2. forficulate
  3. forficulid
  4. forficulids
  5. forfid
  6. forfight
  7. forflutter
  8. forg
  9. forgab
  10. forgainst
  11. Forgan

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