Synonyms of the word combat


COMBATBATTLE - CONFLICT - CONTEND - ENGAGEMENT - FIGHT - FIGHTING - SCRAP - STRUGGLE

combat

  • n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
  • v. (transitive) To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

battle

  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening.
  • adj. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.
  • v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To nourish; feed.
  • v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) To render (for example soil) fertile…
  • n. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an…
  • n. A struggle; a contest.
  • n. (now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
  • n. (obsolete) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
  • v. (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight.
  • v. (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.

conflict

  • n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
  • v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

contend

  • v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
  • v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
  • v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

engagement

  • n. (countable) an appointment, especially to speak or perform.
  • n. (uncountable) connection or attachment.
  • n. (uncountable, by extension, about human emotional state) the feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected…
  • n. (countable, uncountable) the period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
  • n. (fencing, countable) the point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective…

fight

  • v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
  • v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
  • v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
  • n. An occasion of fighting.
  • n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
  • n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
  • n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
  • n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
  • n. The will or ability to fight.
  • n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.

fighting

  • v. present participle of fight.
  • adj. Engaged in war or other conflict.
  • adj. Apt to provoke a fight.
  • n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.

scrap

  • n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
  • n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
  • n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
  • n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
  • v. (transitive) To discard.
  • v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
  • v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
  • v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
  • v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
  • n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
  • v. to fight.

struggle

  • n. Strife, contention, great effort.
  • v. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
  • v. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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