combat

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"Now, friends, make a ring and dowse the glim In another instant, the preparations for the combat were afoot, Robin Turgis, angrily protesting against the desecration of his orderly hostelry and shouting wild words about summoning the watch, was promptly overpowered by Jehan le Loup, who forced him on to a bench and kept him there with a dagger's point at his throat.

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  1. transitive verb To oppose in battle; fight against.
  2. transitive verb To oppose vigorously; struggle against. See Synonyms at oppose.
  3. intransitive verb To engage in fighting; contend or struggle.

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  • Although the combat is a bit dated, it doesn't hold back the brighter elements of the game and often enough aids them. —  Geek.com
  • The Missing Link feels pulled right from the Spidey games right down to his ability to stick to walls, yet the combat is as trite and boring as you can get, involving only smacking around some robots with basic combat and spitting by blowing into the mic. —  IGN DS
  • Because the combat is as simple to tackle as the detonations themselves, both tactics get brought closer together in terms of risks and rewards. —  GamerBytes
  • But the combat is a key area in which the game is attempting to differentiate itself from the crowd and offer something new, partly through the more action-oriented gameplay, and partly through the variety of weaponry on offer. —  Eurogamer
  • Just as the combat was about to commence a strange panic seized the Genoese, and, without exchanging a blow or firing a shot, they fled hastily. —  The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century
 

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battle ·  warfare ·  defense ·  assault ·  mission ·  operation ·  emergency ·  engagement ·  encounter ·  flight ·  contest ·  communication

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combat:   combating
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French combattre, from Old French, from Late Latin combattere : Latin com-, com- + Latin battere, to beat (alteration of battuere).

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  1. First in early modern English; from French combatre, now combattre, = Provencal combattre = Spanish combatir = Portuguese combater = Italian combattere, fight, battle, from Middle Latin *combattere, from Latin com-, together, + Middle Latin battere, beat, fight: see bate and batter.
  2. After F. combat, n., from the verb.
 

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