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Combat : (noun)
1: an engagement fought between two military forces [syn: armed
combat]
2: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke
out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the
streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
[syn: fight, fighting, scrap]
(verb)
1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The
Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq"; "We
must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they
battled over the budget" [syn: battle]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Combat : \Com"bat\, n. [Cf. F. combat.]
1. A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st. --Shak.
The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was
fought in Paulina. --Shak.
2. (Mil.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in
which the parties engaged are not armies.
Single combat, one in which a single combatant meets a
single opponent, as in the case of David and Goliath;
also, a duel.
Syn: A battle; engagement; conflict; contest; contention;
struggle; fight, strife. See Battle, Contest.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Combat : \Com"bat\ (? or ?; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Combated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Combating.] [F. combattre; pref. com- _
battre to beat, fr. L. battuere to strike. See Batter.]
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
To combat with a blind man I disdain. --Milton.
After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated
only for the choice of masters. --Gibbon.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Combat : \Com"bat\, v. t.
To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend
against; to resist.
When he the ambitious Norway combated. --Shak.
And combated in silence all these reasons. --Milton.
Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled.
--Goldsmith.
Syn: To fight against; resist; oppose; withstand; oppugn;
antagonize; repel; resent.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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COMBAT, Eng. law. The form of a forcible encounter between two or more
persons or bodies of men; an engagement or battle. A duel.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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