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noun

Combat n.

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."

(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.

Synonyms: A battle; engagement; conflict; contest; contention; struggle; fight, strife. See Battle, Contest.

verb

Combat v. t. (past & past part. combated or combatted; pres. part. combating or combatting) 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."

Synonyms: To fight against; resist; oppose; withstand; oppugn; antagonize; repel; resent.

Combat v. i. (past & past part. combated or combatted; pres. part. combating or combatting) 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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Combat" Quotes from Famous Books

... is great in preventing troops from independent firing when their blood is up in the heat of combat, the paramount duty of an officer should be to control all wildness, and to insist upon volleys in sections of companies by word of command, the sights of the rifles being carefully adjusted, and a steady aim being taken at the knees ...

— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker

... Unnatural Combat, a Tragedy, presented by the King's Servants at the Globe, printed at London 1639. This old Tragedy, as the author tells his patron, has neither Prologue nor Epilogue, "it being composed at a time, when such by-ornaments ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume II • Theophilus Cibber

... raging fiercely, and Cuthbert, raising her from the ground, ran with her into the wood, where they remained hidden until the combat ceased, and the last survivors of the Baron's band had ridden ...

— Winning His Spurs - A Tale of the Crusades • George Alfred Henty

... point in Mr Parmenter's cablegram to Lennard which may as well be explained here. He had, of course, confided everything that he knew, not only about the war, but also about the approaching World Peril and the means that were being taken to combat it, to his partner on his first arrival in the States, and had also given him a copy ...

— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith

... earth, and he would brook no rival at his side. The tolerance of Babylonian religion was unknown in Assyria. It was "through trust in Assur" that the Assyrian armies went forth to conquer, and through his help that they gained their victories. The enemies of Assyria were his enemies, and it was to combat and overcome them that the Assyrian monarchs declare that they marched to war. Cyrus tells us that Bel-Merodach was wrathful because the images of other deities had been removed by Nabonidos from their ancient shrines in order to be gathered together in his temple of -Saggil ...

— Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs • Rev. A. H. Sayce

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