transitive and intransitive. To meet (a person or group) as an adversary. Also: to engage in combat with.

intransitive. To treat with any one as to the terms which one party is to give, and the other to accept, in a transaction between them; to try to…

transitive. To give battle to, fight against, assail in battle. Also figurative.

transitive. To fight against or challenge (a person). Also: to argue with.

Originally and chiefly Scottish. transitive. To fight (a person). Obsolete.

intransitive. To fight one's way through (an army, etc.). rare.

To contend with in a well-matched fight, to contest the field with, to be or prove oneself a match… in a literal contest or battle.

transitive. To fight with, engage, oppose in battle.

to grapple with To encounter hand to hand; to battle or struggle with.

To impinge against; to attack, assault, run counter to. Obsolete.

transitive. To combat; to engage or oppose in battle; to war against.

To oppose with arms, fight against.