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

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, 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

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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. Jason Kander:

   ( Before) I didn't make time to hang out with other veterans like maybe I should have because it's been very therapeutic to do that, there's a reason that past generations have been hanging out at VFW halls. There's a comfort in being around fellow combat vets.

2. Barack Obama:

   Right now, the rules of global trade too often undermine our values and put our workers and businesses at a disadvantage, tPP allows America – and not countries like China – to write the rules of the road in the 21st century, which is especially important in a region as dynamic as the Asia-Pacific. Signed in February 2016, the deal was supposed to provoke investment among the 12 regions, which together make up about 40 percent of the global economy, the BBC reported at the time. However, the countries involved needed to ratify the agreement in order for it to actually go into effect. Trump’s presidency, which began less than a year later, complicated that. President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the trade deal through an executive order in January 2017. Last month, the remaining 11 countries signed a deal without the U.S. Delegates rally against the The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal at the Democratic National Convention in 2016. ( Reuters/Carlos Barria) Opponents of the deal, including labor unions, argued it would be a threat to manufacturing jobs and encourage exports of jobs to lower-wage countries overseas. If TPP would be enacted, the U.S. would lose 448,000 jobs, according to a study from Tufts University’s Global and Environment Institute. In comparison, the study found a total job loss of 771,000 across all 12 nations involved in the deal combined. Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, broke with the President Barack Obama administration in opposing the deal. Hillary Clinton expressed concern that it would benefit drug countries and would n’t combat currency manipulation, Time magazine reported. President Trump once called TPP a.

3. Abby Bartolick:

   I think it's important that we continue to combat crime because it continues to be an issue no matter who is in power, the idea of taking money away from the police when really we should be putting more money into them and giving them more access to training, especially when it comes to dealing with people with mental health issues.

4. Vladimir Komoyedov:

   It is likely that groups of Russian volunteers will appear in the ranks of the Syrian army as combat participants.

5. Ralph Northam:

   This is ground zero and this expression has to be defended, it's not just the overall symbols of oppression and the general oppression ideals that we need to combat. We also need to combat things on the local level as well.