Definition of combat

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Combat (v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight..

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Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Combat; war.
Encounter :: Encounter (v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter..
Combater :: Combater (n.) One who combats.
Tournament :: Tournament (n.) A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle..
Antagonistical :: Antagonistical (a.) Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces..
Agonistical :: Agonistical (a.) Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural..
Combativeness :: Combativeness (n.) The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
Debate :: Debate (v. i.) To engage in strife or combat; to fight.
Knockdown :: Knockdown (n.) A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal..
Flinch :: Flinch (v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat..
Sciomachy :: Sciomachy (n.) A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.
Battailant :: Battailant (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.
Combativeness :: Combativeness (n.) A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.
Recreant :: Recreant (a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven..
Combat :: Combat (v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight..
Joust :: Joust (v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.
Recreant :: Recreant (n.) One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch..
Agonistics :: Agonistics (n.) The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games..
Combating :: Combating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comba.
Hellanodic :: Hellanodic (n.) A judge or umpire in games or combats.
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