Definition of combat

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Combat (v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight..

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Duelist :: Duelist (n.) One who fights in single combat.
Monomachy :: Monomachy (n.) A duel; single combat.
Combater :: Combater (n.) One who combats.
Antagonistical :: Antagonistical (a.) Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces..
Rencounter :: Rencounter (n.) A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meeting in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement..
Purgation :: Purgation (n.) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal..
Boxing :: Boxing (n.) The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring.
Militant :: Militant (a.) Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.
Knightly :: Knightly (a.) Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit..
Contest :: Contest (n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter..
Melee :: Melee (n.) A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.
Combat :: Combat (v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight..
Battel :: Battel (n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager..
Combated :: Combated (imp. & p. p.) of Comba.
Defiance :: Defiance (n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat..
Soldier :: Soldier (n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Force :: Force (n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation..
Dueling :: Dueling (n.) The act or practice of fighting in single combat. Also adj.
Skirmish :: Skirmish (v. i.) A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops..
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