Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To oppose in battle; fight against.
- v. To oppose vigorously; struggle against. See Synonyms at oppose.
- v. To engage in fighting; contend or struggle.
- n. Fighting, especially armed battle; strife. See Synonyms at conflict.
- adj. Of or relating to combat: flew 50 combat missions.
- adj. Intended for use or deployment in combat: combat boots; combat troops.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To fight; struggle or contend; battle; especially, in earlier use, engage in single fight.
- To fight or do battle with; oppose by force; contend against; resist contentiously: as, to combat an antagonist; to combat arguments or opinions.
- n. A fight, especially, in earlier use, between two; in general, a struggle to resist, overthrow, or conquer: contest; engagement; battle.
Wiktionary
- n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
- v. transitive To fight; to struggle for victory.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
- v. To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
- n. A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
- n. (Mil.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
WordNet 3.0
- v. battle or contend against in or as if in a battle
- n. the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
- n. an engagement fought between two military forces
Etymologies
- From French, from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- ("with") + battuere ("to beat, strike"). (Wiktionary)
- French combattre, from Old French, from Late Latin combattere : Latin com-, com- + Latin battere, to beat (alteration of battuere). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The judicial combat is introduced by a writer of the fourteenth century, in a scene where Pilate challenges Jesus Christ to _single combat_.”
“Casualty rate comparison (non combat +combat) between Bush and Clinton on 04 / 08 / 2009, -3 / +88Does the gallery launch for anyone else?”
“The proportion of private contractors that engage in combat is roughly equal to that of the military.”
“Kilo, The proportion of private contractors that engage in combat is roughly equal to that of the military.”
“Of course, when you need some deceitful con artists to assure gays that making gays eligible for the draft and for being badly crippled/killed in combat is somehow doing the gays a FAVOR — well, you need Democrats for that kind of bullshit.”
“The most useful tactical PSYOPs used in combat is simply to tell enemy troops where and how to surrender.”
“US soldiers killed in combat is a category of data kept and made available by the Department of Defense, so this definition should be unambiguous.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Naiman: For a DREAMy, Wartime, National-Service Draft
“Because of privacy laws, confirming that a soldier was wounded in combat is difficult.”
“Fred Reed says that placing women in combat is “stupid and unworkable” — then provides some data to back his harsh claims:”
“Claiming that serving in combat is a prerequisite for wise decision-making on the application of military force to international relations is like claiming that a gerbil is an expert on the economics pet stores.”
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