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Combat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A fighting; a struggling to resist, overthrow or conquer; contest by force; engagement; battle; as the combat of armies.

2. A duel; a fighting between two men; formerly, a formal trail of a doubtful cause, or decision of a controversy between two persons, by swords or batons.

Combat [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To fight; to struggle or contend with an opposing force.

2. Pardon me; I will not combat in my shirt.

3. This word is particularly used to denote private contest, or the fighting of two persons in a duel; but it is used in a general sense for the contention of bodies of men, nations, armies, or any species of animals.

4. After the fall of the republic, the Romans comabated only for the choice of maters.

5. To act in opposition.

6. It is followed by with before the person, and for before the thing sought.

7. A combats with B for his right.

Combat [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To fight with; to oppose by force; as, to combat an antagonist.

2. To contend against; to oppose; to resist; as, to combat arguments or opinions.

Combat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

2. An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

Combat [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

Combat [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.

Combatable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.

Combatant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Contending; disposed to contend.

Combatant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A person who combats; any person who fights with another, or in an army, or fleet.

2. A duellist; one who fights or contends in battle, for the decision of a private quarrel or difference; a champion.

3. A person who contends with another in argument, or controversy.

Combatant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Contending; disposed to contend.

Combatant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who engages in combat.

Combated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Opposed; resisted.

Combated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Combat

Combater [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who fights or contends.

Combater [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who combats.

Combating [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Striving to resist; fighting; opposing by force or by argument.

Combating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Combat

Combative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

Combativeness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

2. A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.

Combattant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.

Contention Roget’s Thesaurus §720

N. contention, strife, contest, contestation, struggle, belligerency, opposition, controversy, polemics, debate, war of words, logomachy, litigation, paper war, high words, sparring, competition, rivalry, corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism|, concours, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap, regatta, field day, sham fight, derby day, turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy, gymkhana, boat race, torpids, wrestling, greco-roman wrestling, pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense, spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting, quarterstaff, single stick, gladiatorship, gymnastics, jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo, athletics, athletic sports, games of skill, shindy, fracas, clash of arms, tussle, scuffle, broil, fray, affray, affrayment|, velitation|, colluctation|, luctation, brabble, brigue|, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting, free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight, conflict, skirmish, rencounter, encounter, rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight, battle, battle royal, combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament, tilt, tilting, tournay, list, pitched battle, death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle, armageddon, hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war, naval engagement, naumachia, sea fight, duel, duello, single combat, monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes, passage of arms, affair of honor, triangular duel, hostile meeting, digladiation, deeds of arms, feats of arms, appeal to arms, pugnacity, combativeness, bone of contention

V. contend, contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle, spar, square, exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs, fib|, justle, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence, skirmish, pickeer, fight, wrangle, contend &c. with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush, with, tilt with, encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw, run a tilt at, oppose, reluct, join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand, take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet, enter the lists, couch one's lance, give satisfaction, appeal to arms, lay about one, break the peace, compete with, cope with, vie with, race with, outvie, emulate, rival, run a race, contend &c. for, stipulate for, stickle for, insist upon, make a point of

Adj. contending, together by the ears, at loggerheads at war at issue, competitive, rival, belligerent, contentious, combative, bellicose, unpeaceful, warlike, quarrelsome, pugnacious, pugilistic, gladiatorial, palestric, palestrical

Phr. a verbis ad verbera, a word and a blow, "a very pretty quarrel as it stands", commune periculum concordiam parit, lis litem generat

Warfare Roget’s Thesaurus §722

N. warfare, fighting, hostilities, war, arms, the sword, mars, bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella, bloodshed, appeal to arms, appeal to the sword, ordeal of battle, wager of battle, ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword, battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations, mobilization, state of siege, battlefield, theater of operations, warpath, art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation, generalship, soldiership, logistics, military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery, chivalry, gunpowder, shot, battle, tug of war, service, campaigning, active service, tented field, kriegspiel, kriegsspiel, fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan, war-cry, war-whoop, battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom, calumet of war, word of command, password, watchword, passage d-armes, war to the death, war to the knife, guerre a mort, guerre a outrance, open war, internecine war, civil war

V. arm, raise troops, mobilize troops, raise up in arms, take up the cudgels, take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword, draw the sword, unsheathe the sword, dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk, go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war', cry havoc, kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war, raise one's banner, raise the fire cross, hoist the black flag, throw away, fling away the scabbard, enroll, enlist, take the field, take the law into one's own hands, do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle, flesh one's sword, set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords, come to blows, come to close quarters, fight, combat, contend, battle with, break a lance with, raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger, serve, see service, be on service, be on active service, campaign, wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire, spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood, on the warpath, carry on war, carry on hostilities, keep the field, fight the good fight, fight it out, fight like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to hand, sell one's life dearly, pay the ferryman's fee

Adj. contending, contentious, armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie, sword in hand, in arms, under arms, up in arms, at war with, bristling with arms, in battle array, in open arms, in the field, embattled, battled, unpacific, unpeaceful, belligerent, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike, military, militant, soldier- like, soldierly, chivalrous, strategical, internecine

Adv. flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth, at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet

Int. vae victis, to arms, to your tents o israel, phr, the battle rages, a la guerre comme a la guerre, bis peccare in bello non licet, jus gladii, "my voice is still for war", "'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it", "my sentence is for open war", "pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war", "the cannons have their bowels full of wrath", "the cannons . . .spit forth their iron indignation", "the fire-eyed maid of smoky war", silent leges inter arma, si vis pacem para bellum