combat

combat
v
1. fight, contend, clash, conflict with, strive; encounter, engage, meet, join, face; battle, give or do battle, duel, joust, tussle, skirmish, scuffle, jostle; war, make war, war against, go to war, go to battle, wage war, take the field, take up arms; brawl, feud, come to blows; pommel, beat, beat into the ground, batter; box, spar, exchange fisticuffs, wrestle, grapple with; slaughter, massacre.
2. contest, confront, rise up against, Obs. militate against, rail against, ride against, struggle against, Archaic. reluct; oppose, defy, contradict, contravene, refute, confound; object to, protest, call in question, march against, make a stand against, dispute, oppugn; resist, repel, repulse, withstand, stand on one's ground; obstruct, thwart, hamper, traverse, interfere with, counteract; check, curb, hinder, impede, inhibit, restrict; restrain, constrain, barricade, bar, block, blockade; prevent, prohibit, forbid, interdict, proscribe, veto, embargo; frustrate, balk, foil, cross, play at cross purposes.
3. assault, attack, beset, assail, harass; raid, storm, charge, rush, tilt, blitz; set upon, pounce upon, bombard, open fire upon, engage in hostilities, Sl. let [s.o.] have it, Sl. lay into, Archaic. insult.
4. argue, dispute, disagree, controvert, run foul of, cross swords, lock horns, fall foul or afoul of; wrangle, bicker, haggle, Sl. hassle; quibble, cavil, nit-pick, pettifog.
n
5. fight, battle, duel, bout; contention, clash, conflict, struggle, strife; war, warfare, fighting, hostilities; assault, attack, offensive, harassment, as-sailment; siege, besiegement, besetment, investment; brawl, feud, affray, broil; collision, meeting, engagement, encounter, rencounter; contest, showdown, tournament, competition.
6. argument, debate, discussion, polemic, logomachy, war of words; controversy, dispute, disputation, discord, contestation; disagreement, quarrel, altercation; dissension, variance, difference of opinion, wrangling, bickering.
7. opposition, confrontation, defiance, contradiction, contravention, refutation, objection, protestation; uprising, resistance, dissension; obstruction, interference, counteraction.

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