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combat English

Meaning combat meaning

What does combat mean?
Definitions in simple English

combat Noun

— A combat is a fight or a battle.

combat

— noun an engagement fought between two military forces — verb (= battle) 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 — noun (= fight, fighting, scrap) 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 combat synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as combat?

combat English » English

fight battle struggle war conflict encounter fighting strife scuffle engagement contest contend tussle skirmish fray wrestle argument warfare wage war scrimmage oppose grapple duel confront brush attempt action struggle against scrap riot resist quarrel opposition make war grappling fight against face dogfight defeat contention campaign bout armed combat argue wrestling wage a struggle against tug-of-war tug tourney tilt

Topics combat topics

What do people use combat to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict

Fight
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Fight against something bad

Conjugation combat conjugation

How do you conjugate combat?

combat · verb

Examples combat examples

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Simple sentences

Tom died in combat.
He flew numerous combat missions during World War II and during the Korean Conflict.
There's nothing like close combat to test one's mettle.
Prepare for combat.
Mary prefers playing the game on Easy Mode so she can enjoy the story without worrying about the combat.

Movie subtitles

The Emperor Constantine, followed by his court, designated to each his post for combat, consoled the wives, and encouraged the men.
I challenge you to mortal combat, Black Knight!
We have to combat the movement of the stock market, is that not so my brother deputy governor?
Colonel Borg, the Swedish military attache. He's going to lead the combat.
Were you in combat?
Oh, my first time in combat.
No combat fatigue, no fever cases.
I want to tell you men who've never been in combat before that it's okay to be scared.
Sergeant Dickerman, you're what's known as a combat correspondent.
And since this is your first combat, I suggest you correspond.
You fellas wouldn't want to take a little word of advice from a combat-hardened veteran, would you?
He knows now that he cost us a combat plane in exchange for an observation plane.
That'd give them a commander who understands combat give you a little command experience.
I took it off a Jap officer whom I defeated in single combat, hand-to-hand.
I've got the advantage, way more experience in underwater combat.
Never thought we'd be putting on our combat gear again.
A combat between jackals.
It means that at 12 o'clock tonight, here in this room, we will meet in mortal combat. A duel to the death.
Combat formation.
In majestic combat Kanchenjungha unfolds his grandeur and power and once again transforms into the luminous, unreachable mountain that rests above the clouds for the entire year.
Isn't there? Your patients are all victims of combat fatigue.
Hidden away in a remote corner of London. was the headquarters of combat operations of O77.
As plans for the impending invasion. of Europe were speeded up. agents of Operation 77 were broken up into combat teams. and given their final briefing.
I've ordered two fresh combat divisions for this area.
When the lights go out on this glittering realm of sawdust and popcorn, the circus puts off it's spangles and climbs into battle dress for the nightly combat with time and distance.
We are bound for combat against your Saxon knights at Ashby, three days hence. - Not for any Saxon lady's chamber.
We have looked at our opponents' analysis of combat effectiveness.
This is the combat plan.
We fully realize how anxious all you chaps are to get overseas for active combat flying.
We have no pilots doing combat flying over 26.
Yet I'm too old for combat flying.
Here, equipped with the newest and finest of weapons, hardened to combat conditions under offiicers steeped in the traditions of their Corps, the United States Marine today rightfully qualifies as the best fighting man on earth.
Umbopa says by the customs of his people two claimants to the throne settle it by hand-to-hand combat.
And I was told that in the tournament at Acre Richard of England led five of his Saxon knights into combat and vanquished all who challenged them. The one who fell was named De Bracy. And another, Bois-Guilbert.
This combat at arms at Ashby is a weather vane to test the strength of John.
Rebecca, once I enter these lists in combat I must maintain my name in arms.
In the case it jams in combat,could mean life or death.
I didn't hear no sounds of combat,so I thought you might want a drink.

News and current affairs

Inter-state combat may still occur where strategic front lines can be found, such as Israel's border with Syria, India's border with Pakistan, and the border dividing the two Koreas.
This flies in the face of conventional thinking, which continues to claim that mandating carbon reductions - through cap-and-trade or a carbon tax - is the only way to combat climate change.
No country can eradicate extreme poverty, combat potential pandemics, or improve nuclear security by itself.
But to say that, one must also assume that to some extent he himself is unbalanced and has shifted from a kind of guerilla warfare against the West, always with some possibility of retreat, to all-out combat.
After former US Vice President Al Gore lost his bid for the presidency in 2000, he became a leader of the social movement to combat global climate change, and his style changed from pragmatic to inspirational and prophetic.
Nor was he able to contain let alone combat rampant corruption in the Palestinian Authority.
ROME - Today's policies to combat climate change cost much more than the benefits they produce.
US President Barack Obama promised that policies to combat global warming would create five million new green jobs.
Indeed, there is no realistic chance that the Iraqi army and police will be able to take over combat responsibilities and effective policing any time soon.
In recent discussions about how to combat the virus, the methodical rigor of science and medicine has given way to hyperbolic politics and public hysteria.
But paratroopers, flown in by helicopters, suddenly jumped the Egyptian gun crews, who never had a chance in hand-to-hand combat.
The World Bank provides only a few millions dollars, not the billions needed to combat the disease in Africa.
It is time to shift from inaction to urgent combat against the pandemic, backed by billions of dollars in assistance from rich countries.
Football is an opportunity to experience the thrill of combat, without risking much more than a few broken bones.
WASHINGTON, DC - US President Barack Obama has laid out a detailed strategy for how his administration plans to combat the Islamic State, which controls a substantial portion of Syria and Iraq.
They heard from health experts who said that communicable diseases were rampant and that mosquito nets would be a great way to combat malaria.
The world could fight back with general health services in at-need areas along with more focused efforts to combat HIV and malaria.
Even the machinery of US military combat is portrayed non-heroically.
Equally important is research into the most effective measures to combat cross-border animal and plant diseases.
But that danger becomes far more acute in a combat zone, where nuclear materials and weapons are at risk of theft, and reactors can become bombing targets.
And some government-connected think tanks have explored the possibility of deploying US combat forces to address nuclear risks in North Korea if the regime crumbles.
Handled properly, our efforts to cope with the financial crisis can reinforce our efforts to combat climate change.
NEW YORK - Afghanistan's security and political situation remains plagued by uncertainty, stemming from the withdrawal of United States and NATO combat troops, the upcoming presidential election, and the stalled peace negotiations with the Taliban.
Maybe there are smarter ways to combat terrorism than expensive wars and ever more homeland security.
The irony is that, even in that slogan's heyday, Sino-Russian relations were deteriorating fast, culminating in spasms of combat along the Amur River in Siberia less than a decade later.
At an emergency meeting on September 1, EU leaders refused to continue the PCA talks until Russia removed its combat units from the Georgian separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Maintaining the world's fifth-largest army in a perpetual state of combat readiness is crushingly expensive for one of its poorest countries, with the military budget claiming an estimated one-third of GDP.
Twenty years ago, real short-term interest rates were exceptionally high by historical standards because the major central banks of the world wanted to combat what was seen at the time as inaction against spiraling inflation.

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