combat
Etymology 16th century, borrowed from Middle French combat, deverbal from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- + battuere ("to beat, strike"). Pronunciation
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Etymology 16th century, borrowed from Middle French combat, deverbal from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- + battuere ("to beat, strike"). Pronunciation
- Noun:
- Verb:
combat
- A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC ↗:
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
- a struggle for victory
- French: combat, bataille, lutte
- German: Kampf, Schlacht, Gefecht
- Italian: battaglia
- Portuguese: batalha, combate, luta, peleja, pugna
- Russian: би́тва
- Spanish: batalla, acción, combate
combat (third-person singular simple present combats, present participle combatting or combating#English|combating, simple past and past participle combatted or combated)
- (transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
- It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
- (intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:
- To combat with a blind man I disdain.
- French: combattre
- German: kämpfen (gegen, mit), bekämpfen
- Italian: combattere
- Portuguese: combater
- Spanish: combatir
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