combat
/ˈkɑmˌbæt/ verb C2- To fight; to struggle against. · It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
- To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
He/she/it combats · Past combated · Past participle combated · -ing form combating
Verb forms
- Base form
- combat
- He/she/it
- combats
- Past
- combated
- Past participle
- combated
- -ing form
- combating
From the library
“Having wished you all to witness the challenge, he now wishes you to be present at the combat.”
When they had fearfully lacerated each other and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with fatigue.
The Lion alone challenged him to combat.
Not long afterwards the Lion had a combat with a wild bull, and called on the Dolphin to help him.
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