Combat
['kɒmbæt;'kʌm-] or ['kɑmbæt]
Definition
(v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
(v. t.) 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.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
Typed by Elvin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Fight, contend, struggle, contest, war.
v. a. Oppose, resist, withstand, contend against, battle with, struggle with, war against.
n. Battle, fight, conflict, engagement, action, contest, encounter, rencounter, skirmish, brush, affair.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See RESIST]
SYN:Encounter, conflict, contention, struggle, contest, engagement, arms, battle
ANT:Surrender, submission, mediation, reconciliation, truce, arbitration
Checked by Andrew
Definition
v.i. to contend or struggle.—v.t. to beat against: to contest: to oppose: to debate.—n. a struggle: a fight.—adjs. Com′batable capable of being combated; Com′batant disposed to combat.—n. one who combats; Com′bative inclined to quarrel.—n. Com′bativeness.—Combatant officer one who takes part in the action as opposed to the medical officers &c. who are Non-combatant.
Editor: Vanessa
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of engaging in combat, you will find yourself seeking to ingratiate your affections into the life and love of some one whom you know to be another's, and you will run great risks of losing your good reputation in business. It denotes struggles to keep on firm ground. For a young woman to dream of seeing combatants, signifies that she will have choice between lovers, both of whom love her and would face death for her.
Checker: Wilmer
Examples
- Is this regular, and according to the law of combat? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The cries of the gorilla proclaimed that it was in mortal combat with some other denizen of the fierce wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Also we will have combat. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Figs's left made terrific play during all the rest of the combat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I had expected some extravagant proposition, and remained silent awhile, collecting my thoughts that I might the better combat her fanciful scheme. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He imagined that Venn and Mrs. Yeobright were in league, and felt that there was a certain legitimacy in combating such a coalition. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Old Osborne did not speculate much upon the mingled nature of his feelings, and how his instinct and selfishness were combating together. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then came the tale of hair-breadth escapes, combats with dogs, ambush and flight, as gipsey-like we encompassed our pot. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These early Greeks of the _Iliad_ are sturdy fighters, but without discipline--their battles are a confusion of single combats. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The taste for these combats grew rapidly, and the wars supplied an abundance of captives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His first act was to make me a full-fledged chieftain with the rank I had won by my combats the first few weeks of my captivity among them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Pyrenes to the number of 175 are distributed about the departments for combatting electrical fires. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He relinquished them with an agreeable smile, and combated with the door as if it were a wild beast. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As that hope failed, instinctive love of life animated me, and feelings of contention, as if a hostile will combated with mine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And, lastly, I combated Mr. Franklin Blake's scruples, and induced him to be the means of transporting the Diamond to Lady Verinder's house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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