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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

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