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fought windmills

fought windmills is the simple past and past participle of fight windmills.

Meaning of fight windmills

Verb

fight windmills (third-person singular simple present fights windmills, present participle fighting windmills, simple past and past participle fought windmills)

  1. Synonym of tilt at windmills.
    • But even if the moral costs do not concern you, then be concerned with the financial costs; the billions we are all paying to fight windmills.2025 January 19, Heba Gowayed, “The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about fought windmills

What is fought windmills the simple past and past participle of?
Fought windmills is the simple past and past participle of fight windmills.

Words near fought windmills in the dictionary

  1. fought shy
  2. fought the good fight
  3. fought the tiger
  4. fought to the death
  5. fought up
  6. fought windmills
  7. foughten
  8. foughtest
  9. Foughts
  10. fougou
  11. fougous

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