English noun: combat |
1. | combat (act) an engagement fought between two military forces |
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| Synonyms | armed combat |
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| Broader (hypernym) | battle, conflict, engagement, fight |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | aggression, belligerency, hostilities, trench warfare |
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| Part meronym | war, warfare |
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| Domain category | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine |
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2. | combat (act) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle |
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| Samples | A fight broke out at the hockey game. There was fighting in the streets. The unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap.
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| Synonyms | fight, fighting, scrap |
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| Broader (hypernym) | battle, conflict, struggle |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | affaire d'honneur, affray, banging, battering, beating, brawl, brush, clash, close-quarter fighting, cut-and-thrust, disturbance, dogfight, dogfight, duel, encounter, fencing, fistfight, fisticuffs, fray, free-for-all, gang fight, gunfight, gunplay, hassle, impact, in-fighting, knife fight, rough-and-tumble, ruffle, rumble, scuffle, set-to, shock, shootout, single combat, skirmish, slugfest, snickersnee, tussle, whipping |
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| Part holonym | blow |
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