combat
A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
Noun
- A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching;...
- 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...
- 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. - 2012 March 5, William E....
Synonyms: kombat
- a struggle for victory
Synonyms: kombat
Origin
16th century, borrowed from Middle French combat, deverbal from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”).
Forms
Related
abate abattoir battalion batter battery battle debate hors de combat rebate
Derived
anticombat armoured combat armored combat close combat combatable combat air patrol combatant combat armor suit combat armour suit combatative combat boot combat box combat drone combat engineer combat fatigue combat fatigues combat general combative combat loading combat log combat pants combat pay combat-ready combat roll
Verb
- To fight; to struggle against.
- It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
- President Donald Trump’s administration has made combating what it considers anti-Israel and antisemitic movements on college campuses a priority. He signed an executive order during his second week in office to “combat...
Synonyms: kombat
- To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
- To combat with a blind man I disdain. - 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:
Synonyms: kombat