Combat

Quick meaning: Combat is a noun meaning A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).

Meaning

A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).

More Meanings

1. a struggle for victory
2. (transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
3. (intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).

Example Sentences

To combat with a blind man I disdain.

It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.

Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.

In less than eight weeks, five divisions of United States troops have moved into combat, some of them from bases more than 6,000 miles away. More men are on the way. Fighting in difficult country under every kind of hardship, American troops have held back overwhelming numbers of the communist invaders.

Word Forms

• combats
• combating
• combatting
• combated
• combatted

Synonyms for combat

Depending on context, synonyms include battle, fight, fighting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fight, battle, fighting, fighter, hostilities, attack.

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