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com⋅bat
[v. kuh
m-bat, kom-bat, kuhm-; n. kom-bat, kuhm-] 
verb, -bat⋅ed, -bat⋅ing or (especially British) -bat⋅ted, -bat⋅ting, noun –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime. |
–verb (used without object)
| 2. | to battle; contend: to combat with disease. |
–noun
| 3. | Military. active, armed fighting with enemy forces. |
| 4. | a fight, struggle, or controversy, as between two persons, teams, or ideas. |
Origin:
1535–45; < MF combat (n.), combattre (v.) < LL combattere, equiv. to L com- com- + LL battere, for L battuere to strike, beat
1535–45; < MF combat (n.), combattre (v.) < LL combattere, equiv. to L com- com- + LL battere, for L battuere to strike, beat
Related forms:
com⋅bat⋅a⋅ble, adjective
Synonyms:
1, 2. struggle, contest.
1, 2. struggle, contest.
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| com·bat (kəm-bāt', kŏm'bāt') v. com·bat·ed or com·bat·ted, com·bat·ing or com·bat·ting, com·bats v. tr.
To engage in fighting; contend or struggle. n. (kŏm'bāt') Fighting, especially armed battle; strife. See Synonyms at conflict. adj. (kŏm'bāt')
[French combattre, from Old French, from Late Latin combattere : Latin com-, com- + Latin battere, to beat (alteration of battuere).] |
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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.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.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.
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Language Translation for : combat
Spanish:
combate,
German:
der (Zwei-)Kampf,
Japanese:
戦闘
combat (v.)
1489 (implied in combatant), from M.Fr. combattre, from L.L. combattere, from L. com- "with" (each other) + battuere "to beat, fight" (see batter (v.)). The noun is first recorded 1567.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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