Definition of combat

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Combat (n.) A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

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Intercombat :: Intercombat (n.) Combat.
Monomachist :: Monomachist (n.) One who fights in single combat; a duelist.
Noncombatant :: Noncombatant (n.) Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy..
Duelist :: Duelist (n.) One who fights in single combat.
Gladiator :: Gladiator (n.) One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy.
Joust :: Joust (v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.
Marshal :: Marshal (n.) The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists..
Combativeness :: Combativeness (n.) The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
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..
Part :: Part (n.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Fray :: Fray (n.) Affray; broil; contest; combat.
Fight :: Fight (v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.
Debate :: Debate (v. t.) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant..
Fight :: Fight (v. i.) A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc..
Combat :: Combat (v. t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist..
Duel :: Duel (v. i. & t.) To fight in single combat.
Combater :: Combater (n.) One who combats.
Encounter :: Encounter (v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter..
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