combat

Speech parts

1. combat - Noun

2. combat - Verb

Meaning

To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.

A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fight battle fighting conflict struggle contest engagement resist oppose withstand strife scrap face-off die hard control

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Antonyms

hall moor concord rabat hank cotter

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Hypernyms

battle fight conflict struggle engagement contend

Hyponyms

rumble affray impact shock encounter aggression

Phrases with the word

close-quarters combat ground combat vehicle hand-to-hand combat active combat zone combat technique engaged in combat

Derivatives

combated combating combatted combatting

Anagrams

tombac

Examples

The spiritual combat in which we kill our passions to put on the new man is the most difficult struggle of all. We must never weary of this combat, but fight the holy fight fervently and perseveringly. Nilus of Sinai

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. Phyllis Schlafly

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. Henry Adams

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. William O. Douglas

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat. Richard Marcinko

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Close letter words and terms

combable Combaconum combalenga combat a threat combat air patrol combat air patrol craft