noun, verb
noun [U,C] fighting or a fight, especially during a time of war:
armed / unarmed combat (= with / without weapons) * combat troops / aircraft / uniform * He was killed in combat. * hand-to-hand / aerial combat
seealsoSINGLECOMBAT
verb (-t- or -tt-) [VN]
1 to stop sth unpleasant or harmful from happening or from getting worse:
measures to combat crime / inflation / unemployment / disease
2 (formal) to fight against an enemy
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for combat is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does combat appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — combat appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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