combating

Meaning

of Combat

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

battle fighting combat counter attacking conflicting struggling wrestling rowing grappling coping falling out warring competing encountering
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Antonyms

supporting keeping helping shielding approving consenting
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Phrases with the word

combating money laundering

Examples

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. Terry Pratchett

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace. Barack Obama

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. Tim Bishop

Instead of combating my slight prejudice against you as uncharitable, I mean to cherish it, until I am convinced that I have no reason to distrust this kind, insinuating friendship you are so anxious to push upon me. Anne Brontë

Yemen is an essential partner of the United States of America and the international community in combating terror. Ali Abdullah Saleh

The development of air power in its broadest sense, and including the development of all means of combating missiles that travel through the air, whether fired or dropped, is the first essential to our survival in war. Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard