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fight
/fite/
 
vt, v-recip.
 
1.
Def.: egpasukubey; egpeehetey; egpabutengey; egpahansingey
MS: egpasukubey; egpeehetey; egpabutengey; egpahansingey
If people or animals fight with each other, they try to hurt each other by using weapons or their bodies.
The soldiers and the rebels fought near the village.
The boy lost a tooth when he fought with his brother.
 
v-recip.
 
2.
Def.: egpaap-apuley
MS: egpaap-apuley
If people fight with each other, they talk angrily to each other about something.
Those two friends are not speaking to each other, because they b:fought yesterday.
 
n-ct.
 
3.
Def.: pegpeehetey; pegpabutengey; pegpaapuley
MS: pegpeehetey; pegpabutengey; pegpaapuley
a situation in which people or animals fight with each other, or people talk angrily with each other (have a fight).
 
vt.
 
4.
Def.: eggeraman egpapeeneng-eneng wey ke egdereet
MS: eggeraman egpapeeneng-eneng; eggeraman egdereet
If you fight something (e.g., a fire, a social problem), you try to stop it or destroy it.
The police fight crime.
Ka pulis eggeram egpapeeneng-eneng te krimin.
The men fought the fire with buckets of water.
He was very sleepy, but he fought sleep because he needed to finish his work.
 
n-ct.
 
5.
Def.: peggeram pegpapeeneng-eneng wey ke pegdereet
A fight against something is the the action of trying to stop or destroy it.
Many people support the fight against drugs in the Barangay.
 
vi.
 
6.
Def.: egpehes eggeram ne eggimu wey egkuwa
If you fight for something, or fight to do something difficult, you try very hard to do it or get it.
They had to fight to breathe in the thick smoke.
Migpehes sikandan miggeheynawa te makepal ne ebel.
He really had to fight to finish the race, because he was very tired.
The injured man is in hospital fighting for his life.
 
n-ct.
 
7.
Def.: pegpehes peggeram ne peggimu wey pegkuwa
A fight for something is the action of trying very hard to do it or get it.
He was very tired from his fight to finish the race.
Amana nabeley sikandin puun te pegpehes din ne eg-impusan ka lumba.
Irreg.  fought, fought.
Sem.Dom.: GSL0451-0475
Status: ready

Last updated: 03/Oct/2012