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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.
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