Definitions of Combat [ʊm]

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Definition of 'Combat'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) combat
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously:
to combat crime.

2. (v.i.) combat
to battle; contend:
to combat with disease.

3. (n.) combat
active, armed fighting with enemy forces.

4. combat
a fight, struggle, or controversy, as between two persons, teams, or ideas.

Etymology: (1535–45; < MF

Definition of 'Combat'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) combat, armed combat
an engagement fought between two military forces

2. (verb) fight, fighting, combat, scrap
the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
"a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

3. (verb) battle, combat
battle or contend against in or as if in a battle
"The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget"

Definition of 'Combat'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) combat
fighting in a war
armed combat; troops dying in combat

2. (verb) combat
to try to prevent
the use of exercise to combat stress

Definition of 'Combat'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Combat
a fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy

2. (noun) Combat
an engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies

3. (verb) Combat
to struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight

4. (verb) Combat
to fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist

Translation of 'Combat'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (an act of) fighting The two knights met each other in single combat.
Afrikaans: stryd, geveg	Arabic: يُقاتِل، يُحارِب	Bulgarian: сражение
Brazilian: combate	Czech: boj	German: der (Zwei-)Kampf
Danish: kamp; strid; dyst	Greek: μάχη	Spanish: combate
Estonian: võitlus	Farsi: نبرد؛ مبارزه	Finnish: taistelu
French: combat	Hebrew: קְרָב	Hindi: युद्ध
Croatian: borba	Hungarian: küzdelem, ütközet	Indonesian: pertarungan
Icelandic: bardagi	Italian: combattimento, battaglia	Japanese: 戦闘
Korean: 전투	Lithuanian: kova	Latvian: kauja; cīņa
Malay: bertempur	Dutch: gevecht	Norwegian: (nær)kamp, strid
Polish: walka	Persian: نبرد؛ مبارزه	Pashto: جنګیدل
Portuguese: combate	Romanian: luptă	Russian: поединок
Slovak: boj	Slovenian: boj	Serbian: borba
Swedish: kamp, strid	Thai: การต่อสู้	Turkish: çarpışma, muharebe
Taiwanese: 戰鬥	Ukrainian: бій	Urdu: لڑنا ، جنگ کرنا
Vietnamese: trận đánh	Chinese: 战斗
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