Combat vs. Battle
Combat and Battle Definitions
Combat
To oppose in battle; fight against.
Battle
A fight between two armed forces, usually on a large scale
An important battle in the Pacific campaign.
Combat
To act or work in order to eliminate, curtail, or stop
Efforts to combat crime.
Drugs that combat infection.
Battle
Armed fighting; combat
Wounded in battle.
Combat
To engage in fighting; contend or struggle.
Battle
A match between two combatants
Trial by battle.
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Combat
Fighting, especially with weapons
Naval combat.
Battle
A protracted controversy or struggle
Won the battle of the budget.
Combat
Contention or strife
Rhetorical combat.
Battle
An intense competition
A battle of wits.
Combat
Of or relating to combat
Flew 50 combat missions.
Battle
To engage in or as if in battle.
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Combat
Intended for use or deployment in combat
Combat boots.
Combat troops.
Battle
To fight against
Battled the enemy.
Battled cancer.
Combat
A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
Battle
A contest, a struggle.
The battle of life
Combat
A struggle for victory
Battle
(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
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Combat
(transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
Battle
A division of an army; a battalion.
Combat
(intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
Battle
The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
Combat
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
To combat with a blind man I disdain.
After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters.
Battle
Battle buddy
Combat
To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
When he the ambitious Norway combated.
And combated in silence all these reasons.
Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled.
Battle
(intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
Scientists always battle over theories.
She has been battling against cancer for years.
Combat
A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st.
The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina.
Battle
(transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
She has been battling cancer for years.
Combat
An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
Battle
To feed or nourish (someone or something).
Combat
An engagement fought between two military forces
Battle
To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
Combat
The act of fighting; any contest or struggle;
A fight broke out at the hockey game
There was fighting in the streets
The unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap
Battle
Improving; nutritious; fattening.
Battle grass, battle pasture
Combat
Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle;
The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq
We must combat the prejudices against other races
They battled over the budget
Battle
Fertile; fruitful.
Battle soil, battle land
Battle
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
Battle
A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
The whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day.
Battle
A division of an army; a battalion.
The king divided his army into three battles.
The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action.
Battle
The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
Battle
To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
To meet in arms, and battle in the plain.
Battle
To assail in battle; to fight.
Battle
A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;
Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
Battle
An energetic attempt to achieve something;
Getting through the crowd was a real struggle
He fought a battle for recognition
Battle
An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph
Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs
Battle
Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle;
The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq
We must combat the prejudices against other races
They battled over the budget
