combat

combat
combatable, adj.
v. /keuhm bat", kom"bat, kum"-/; n. /kom"bat, kum"-/, v., combated, combating or (esp. Brit.) combatted, combatting, n.
v.t.
1. to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
v.i.
2. to battle; contend: to combat with disease.
n.
3. Mil. active, armed fighting with enemy forces.
4. a fight, struggle, or controversy, as between two persons, teams, or ideas.
[1535-45; < MF combat (n.), combattre (v.) < LL combattere, equiv. to L com- COM- + LL battere, for L battuere to strike, beat]
Syn. 1, 2. struggle, contest.

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