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

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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.

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

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

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

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1. combatnoun

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

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

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1. • Fight

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1. combat, armed combatnoun

   an engagement fought between two military forces

   Synonyms:
   fight, armed combat, fighting, scrap

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, 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

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1. combatnoun

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

How to use combat in a sentence?

1. Hillary Clinton:

   I have a responsibility to you and other voters, i think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline as what I believe is the distraction from the important work we have to do to combat climate change.

2. Joshua Koskoff:

   Remington took a weapon that was made to the specs of the U.S. military for the purpose of killing enemy soldiers in combat -- and that weapon in the military is cared for with tremendous amount of diligence, in terms of training, storage, who gets the weapon, and who can use it, they took that same weapon and started peddling it to the civilian market for the purposes of making a lot of money.

3. Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy:

   In general, the main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed, the combat potential of the armed forces of Ukraine has been significantly reduced, allowing us, I emphasize again, to focus the main efforts on achieving the main goal - the liberation of Donbas.

4. Hassan Taleb:

   It's true, there's no real order when tribesmen do combat, it's just the local style.

5. John McCain:

   We have a conflict going on in Iraq and Syria now ... which the A-10 is in combat in ... and you have nothing to replace it with.

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