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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
