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Etymology

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16th century,borrowed fromMiddle Frenchcombat, deverbal fromOld Frenchcombatre, fromVulgar Latin*combattere, fromLatincom-(“with”) +battuere(“to beat, strike”).

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combat (countable anduncountable,pluralcombats)

  1. Abattle, afight (often one in whichweapons are used).
    • 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
      "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her tocombat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
    • 1950 September 1,Harry S. Truman, 0:56 from the start, inMP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People‎[2],Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum,National Archives Identifier:595162:
      In less than eight weeks, five divisions of United States troops have moved intocombat, some of them from bases more than 6,000 miles away. More men are on the way. Fighting in difficult country under every kind of hardship, American troops have held back overwhelming numbers of the communist invaders.
    • 2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, inAmerican Scientist, volume100, number 2, page87:
      Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, includingcombat.
  2. astruggle forvictory

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Translations

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a battle; a fight

Verb

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combat (third-person singular simple presentcombats,present participlecombattingorcombating,simple past and past participlecombattedorcombated)

  1. (transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
    It has proven very difficult tocombat drug addiction.
  2. (intransitive) Tofight (with); tostruggle forvictory (against).
    • 1671,John Milton,Samson Agonistes:
      Tocombat with a blind man I disdain.

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to fight; to struggle for victory

References

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  1. ↑1.01.1Jespersen, Otto (1909)A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings,London:George Allen & Unwin, published1961,§ 3.442,page85.

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Etymology 1

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Deverbal fromcombatre. First attested in 1490.[1]

Noun

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combat m (pluralcombats)

  1. combat

Etymology 2

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Verb

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combat

  1. inflection ofcombatre:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative

References

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  1. ^“combat”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025

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French

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Etymology

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Fromcombattre.

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combat m (pluralcombats)

  1. combat(hostile interaction)
  2. (figuratively)combat(contest; competition)
  3. (in theplural)battle; military combat

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Verb

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combat

  1. third-personsingularpresentindicative ofcombattre

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Norman

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Etymology

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(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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combat m (pluralcombats)

  1. (Jersey)combat

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Verb

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combat

  1. inflection ofcombate:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. third-personpluralpresentindicative
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