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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1. The Twitter CEO:

   Despite the success we are seeing with our use of algorithms to combat abuse, manipulation, and bad faith actors, we recognize that even a model created without deliberate bias may nevertheless result in biased outcomes, bias can happen inadvertently due to many factors, such as the quality of the data used to train our models. In addition to ensuring that we are not deliberately biasing the algorithms, it is our responsibility to understand, measure, and reduce these accidental biases. This is an extremely complex challenge in our industry, and algorithmic fairness and fair machine learning are active and substantial research topics in the machine learning community.

2. Vladimir Putin:

   Top officials in leading NATO countries have allowed themselves to make aggressive comments about our country, therefore I hereby order the Minister of Defense and the chief of the General Staff to place the Russian Army Deterrence Force on combat alert.

3. Michele Gold:

   We never want the history of the Holocaust to be a footnote in the history books, we need to talk about the Holocaust, we need to teach about the Holocaust because it is the most effective way to combat anti-Semitism and racism in all its forms ... and it’s never been as important as it is today.

4. Shawn Manning:

   I think it's almost unheard of for someone to receive the Purple Heart but not have their injuries deemed combat-related, i know that was not what Congress intended to have happen, but it is what currently the Army has determined is going to happen.

5. Defense Secretary Ash Carter:

   This means that as long as they qualify and meet the standards, women will now be able to contribute to our mission in ways they could not before. They'll be able to drive tanks, give orders, lead infantry soldiers into combat, there will be no exceptions.