Definition of combat

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Combat (n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

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Sciomachy :: Sciomachy (n.) A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.
Battailant :: Battailant (n.) A combatant.
Agonistical :: Agonistical (a.) Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural..
Militant :: Militant (a.) Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.
Rencounter :: Rencounter (n.) A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meeting in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement..
Battailant :: Battailant (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat..
Defiance :: Defiance (n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat..
Intercombat :: Intercombat (n.) Combat.
Agonistics :: Agonistics (n.) The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games..
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..
Duel :: Duel (v. i. & t.) To fight in single combat.
Debate :: Debate (v. t.) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
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..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To separate combatants by intervening.
Joust :: "Joust (v. i.) To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt..
Gladiator :: Gladiator (n.) One who engages in any fierce combat or controversy.
Combativeness :: Combativeness (n.) A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.
Monomachist :: Monomachist (n.) One who fights in single combat; a duelist.
Weapon :: Weapon (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc..
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