Combat : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Combat	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
combat n an engagement fought between two military forces [syn: combat, armed combat] the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" Synonym(s): fight, fighting, combat, scrap v battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" Synonym(s): battle, combat
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 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}.