Dictionary Entry
combat
combat is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
- 2transitive verb
To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
- 3noun
A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
- 4noun
An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
- 5noun
an engagement fought between two military forces
- 6noun
the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
"a fight broke out at the hockey game"
"there was fighting in the streets"
- 7verb
battle or contend against in or as if in a battle
"The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"
"We must combat the prejudices against other races"
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