Definition of Combat

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Combat

To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.

A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

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Combat Quotations

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret Mead

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Barney Frank

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
Jimmy Carter

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
Hillary Clinton

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
Larry David

I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.
Adolf Galland

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Miguel de Cervantes

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Combat Translations

combat in French is se battre
combat in Italian is lottare
combat in Spanish is batallar

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