4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
combat
n 1: an engagement fought between two military forces [syn: {armed
combat}]
2: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke
out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the
streets" [syn: {fight}, {fighting}]
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" [syn: {battle}]
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