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Combat \Com"bat\ (? or ?; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Combated; p. pr. & vb. n. Combating.] [F. combattre; pref. com- + battre to beat, fr. L. battuere to strike. See Batter.] To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
To combat with a blind man I disdain.
--Milton.
After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated
only for the choice of masters.
--Gibbon.
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Usage examples of "combating".
No, when I told Alfred Fish I had a job to perform, I meant only that I had decided to dedicate myself to combating deviltry wherever it might arise, as a kind of preparation for what Moriarty would do.
National and regional governments were committing vast resources into combating the biosphere breakdown.
For what seemed to Jaryd an eternity, he and the mage stood facing a host of people wearing icy expressions and the stains and injuries from a night spent combating a fire.
All of which contributed to the surpriseand, Niall had to admit, gratitudethat he felt, just two days ago, when Sartol, who had a day before returned to Amarid with the shocking news of Jessamyn's murder and the conspiracy within the Order, took Niall into his confidence and requested his aid in combating the renegades.
Ross Mobley, founder of Americans Combating Extremism and father of Terrence Ross, had died.
On the other hand, Tanegli was perfectly capable of combating most of the life forms so far seen here and the exuberant nature of the youngsters in his charge.
All effort was aimed at combating the first real test of Eosian supremacy since the Mentats had sloughed off their corporeal forms to find a type of mmortahty by usmg the strong Catteni bodies.
I said, half jokingly, "You mean to say that even you, Sherlock Holmes, who expend all your energies in combating crimethat you harbor evil potentialities?
If this really was a new virus, that meant they had no means of combating the disease.
Then, on a day, a shallow-draft pinnace had tacked upriver from the sea to bring advance word of the imminent arrival of a guarda costa which was escorting two French ships-of-war, both of them fully armed and packed with troops, French troops, all under the command of a French knight and sent down from the north to aid Don Guillermo in combating the common menace of indios illegally armed with firearms.
You will live more years, find freedom and happiness for yourself, and finally will die in honor, while combating that which you perceive to be evil.
His Majesty would prefer that I and my troops be employed for the original purpose for which he sent us to Ireland: to help Your Majesty in combating forces of Rome and consolidating the other small kingdoms under the suzerainty of Tara.