Definition of combat

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Combat (v. t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist..

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Battle :: Battle (v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat..
Fight :: Fight (v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.
Recreant :: Recreant (a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven..
Tilt :: Tilt (n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament..
Encounter :: Encounter (v. i.) To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo..
Stour :: Stour (n.) A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.
Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Combat; war.
Joust :: Joust (v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.
Melee :: Melee (n.) A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.
Agonistics :: Agonistics (n.) The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games..
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.
Gage :: Gage (n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance..
Single :: Single (a.) Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat..
Defiance :: Defiance (n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat..
Marshal :: Marshal (n.) The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists..
Battailant :: Battailant (n.) A combatant.
Box :: Box (v. i.) To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar..
Combated :: Combated (imp. & p. p.) of Comba.
Combativeness :: Combativeness (n.) A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.
Combatant :: Combatant (n.) One who engages in combat.
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