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Synonyms for combat
kəmˈbæt, ˈkɒm bæt; ˈkɒm bætcom·bat

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English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 2 votes

  1. combatverb

    To attack is to begin hostilities of any kind. A general invades a country by marching in troops; he attacks a city by drawing up an army against it; he assaults it by hurling his troops directly upon its defenses. Assail and assault, tho of the same original etymology, have diverged in meaning, so that assault alone retains the meaning of direct personal violence. One may assail another with reproaches; he assaults him with a blow, a brandished weapon, etc. Armies or squadrons charge; combat and encounter may be said of individual contests. To beset is to set around, or, so to speak, to stud one's path, with menaces, attacks, or persuasions. To besiege and beleaguer are the acts of armies. To encounter is to meet face to face, and may be said either of the attacking or of the resisting force or person, or of both.

    Synonyms:
    assail, assault, attack, attack, beleaguer, beset, besiege, charge, encounter, fall upon, invade, set upon, storm

    Antonyms:
    aid, befriend, cover, defend, protect, resist, shelter, shield, support, sustain, uphold, withstand

    Preposition:
    We were attacked by the enemy with cannon and musketry.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. combatnoun

    Synonyms:
    encounter, conflict, contention, struggle, contest, engagement, arms, battle

    Antonyms:
    surrender, submission, mediation, reconciliation, truce, arbitration

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. combat, armed combatnoun

    an engagement fought between two military forces

    Synonyms:
    fight, armed combat, fighting, scrap, combat

  2. fight, fighting, combat, scrapverb

    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"

    Synonyms:
    bit, flake, battle, fleck, fighting, conflict, rubbish, trash, fight, scrap, competitiveness, armed combat, combat, engagement, chip

  3. battle, combatverb

    battle or contend against in or as if in a battle

    "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget"

    Synonyms:
    battle, combat

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. combatverb

    Synonyms:
    fight, contend, struggle, contest, war

  2. combatverb

    Synonyms:
    oppose, resist, withstand, contend against, battle with, struggle with, war against

  3. combatnoun

    Synonyms:
    battle, fight, conflict, engagement, action, contest, encounter, rencounter, skirmish, brush, affair

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. combatnoun

    Synonyms:
    contest bout, struggle, contention, fight, joust, battle

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How to use combat in a sentence?

  1. Chris Garver:

    The Government of Iraq has relied heavily on the Iraqi special operations Iraqi Special Forces and the potential for these forces being depleted into combat ineffectiveness is a real concern.

  2. Philip Hammond:

    It will be months yet before they are ready to start significant combat operations.

  3. John Kennedy:

    I do think we ought to keep this in perspective. What has happened in the last few days, what’s happened in the last years is, of course, tragic, i’m not trying to perfectly equate these two but… we have a lot of drunk drivers in America that kill a lot of people, we ought to try to combat that too.

  4. Sarah Verardo:

    Our Allies are going to weave these combat interpreters right into the fabric of the veterans community.

  5. Olga Sanchez:

    It's a change in everything: in combat, in social policy, in drug policy, in politics against violence, a very important change in our country starting with Andres Manuel.


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