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See combat
v. battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" [syn: battle]
[also: combatting, combatted]
n. an engagement fought between two military forces [syn: armed combat]
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" [syn: fight, fighting, scrap]
[also: combatting, combatted]
Usage examples of "combatted".
The obvious explanation was that he had actually had this new disease, and that it had combatted with the snake-venom in his blood, the one neutralizing the other.
Even with all the old-time medical skill typhoid had been combatted chiefly by prevention.
On the other hand, a kind of fascination in the very strangeness combatted the prejudice.
The travelling world had divided itself into Cookites and Hookites:--those who escaped trouble under the auspices of Mr Cook, and those who boldly combatted the extortions of foreign innkeepers and the Anti-Anglican tendencies of foreign railway officials 'on their own hooks.
Roussel combatted the suggestion that the family of Castaing were in a state of indigence.
His world was harsh, crude, a world of men only--men who were to be combatted, opposed--his hand was against nearly every one of them.
He was no good in discussion, not because any amount of argument could shake his faith, but because the mere fact of hearing another voice disconcerted him painfully, confusing his thoughts at once - these thoughts that for so many years, in a mental solitude more barren than a waterless desert, no living voice had ever combatted, commented, or approved.