Synonyms 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.

   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.

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1. combatnoun

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

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

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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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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

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1. combatnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "combat":

   combating, fight, fighting, counter, countering, battle, tackle, against, counteract, combatting, struggle, fighter, address, control, tackling, curb, counteracting, confront, suppress, battles, warfare, oppose, prevent, overcome

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How to use COMBAT in a sentence?

1. Rich Krell:

   After a while, with combat stories, you just go 'whatever,'.

2. Viktor Ovsyannikov:

   Vadim Shishimarin was in a state of stress caused by the combat situation and the pressure from his commander. Analysis of those circumstances allows me to conclude that Vadim Shishimarin had no direct intent for the murder.

3. Tod Wolters:

   This is an historic moment and the very first time the Alliance has employed these high readiness forces in a deterrence and defense role. They represent a flexible, combat credible force that can be employed in multiple ways and we are utilizing fully their inherent agility.

4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

   Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

5. Lisa Helfend Meyer:

   His reported income is about $300,000 a month, he’s been able to out-lawyer a woman who doesn’t have the finances or the celebrity to combat him.