combat
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
to battle; contend: to combat with disease.
Military. active, armed fighting with enemy forces.
a fight, struggle, or controversy, as between two persons, teams, or ideas.
Origin of combat
1synonym study For combat
Other words for combat
Other words from combat
- com·bat·a·ble, adjective
- in·ter·com·bat, noun
- pre·com·bat, noun, verb, pre·com·bat·ed, pre·com·bat·ing or (especially British) pre·com·bat·ted, pre·com·bat·ting.
- self-com·bat·ing, adjective
- un·com·bat·a·ble, adjective
- un·com·bat·ed, adjective
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How to use combat in a sentence
Many of our greatest American statesmen and scholars have combatted peace measures and advocated stronger armies and navies.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianThe South had no manufactories—only agricultural products, and her representatives combatted the measure with zeal (Explain).
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War | Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap PottsAll these have been in turn combatted by other evolutionist writers, and the war goes on and has produced libraries of volumes.
The Other Side of Evolution | Alexander PattersonHaeckel admits that the belief that this is the missing link is strongly combatted by some distinguished scientists.
The Other Side of Evolution | Alexander PattersonDrs. Rigg, Angus, and others, combatted infidel objections and enforced attention to the subject before us.
Recollections of a Long Life | John Stoughton
British Dictionary definitions for combat
a fight, conflict, or struggle
an action fought between two military forces
(as modifier): a combat jacket
single combat a fight between two individuals; duel
close combat or hand-to-hand combat fighting at close quarters
(tr) to fight or defy
(intr; often foll by with or against) to struggle or strive (against); be in conflict (with): to combat against disease
Origin of combat
1Derived forms of combat
- combatable, adjective
- combater, noun
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