Meaning of COMBAT
| Pronunciation: | | [n]'kâmbat, [v]kum'bat, 'kâmbat
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- [n] an engagement fought between two military forces
- [n] the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"
- [v] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | armed combat, battle, fighting |
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| | See Also: | | affaire d'honneur, affray, aggression, banging, battering, battle, beating, belligerency, blow, brawl, brush, clash, conflict, cut-and-thrust, disturbance, dogfight, duel, encounter, engagement, fencing, fight, fight, fistfight, fisticuffs, fray, free-for-all, gang fight, gunfight, gunplay, hassle, hostility, impact, in-fighting, knife fight, rough-and-tumble, ruffle, rumble, scuffle, set-to, shock, shootout, skirmish, slugfest, snickersnee, struggle, struggle, swordplay, tussle, war, warfare, whipping, wrestle | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\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.
\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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