combat

[ComĀ·bat]

An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

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To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

Noun
an engagement fought between two military forces

Noun
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"

Verb
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"


v. i.
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

v. t.
To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.

n.
A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

n.
An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.


Combat

Com"bat (? ∨ ?; 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.
After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters.

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.
And combated in silence all these reasons.
Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled.
Syn. -- To fight against; resist; oppose; withstand; oppugn; antagonize; repel; resent.

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.
The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina.
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.

To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.

A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

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Usage Examples

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

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Other Usage Examples

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

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