intransitive verb. To oppose in battle; fight against.

intransitive verb. To act or work in order to eliminate, curtail, or stop: synonym: oppose.

intransitive verb. To engage in fighting; contend or struggle.

noun. Fighting, especially with weapons.

noun. Contention or strife.

adjective. Of or relating to combat.

adjective. Intended for use or deployment in combat.

noun. A fight, especially, in earlier use, between two; in general, a struggle to resist, overthrow, or conquer: contest; engagement; battle.

To fight; struggle or contend; battle; especially, in earlier use, engage in single fight.

To fight or do battle with; oppose by force; contend against; resist contentiously: as, to combat an antagonist; to combat arguments or opinions.

intransitive verb. To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

transitive verb. To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.

noun. A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

noun. An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

noun. one in which a single combatant meets a single opponent, as in the case of David and Goliath; also, a duel.

noun. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.

verb. To fight; to struggle for victory.

verb. battle or contend against in or as if in a battle

noun. the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

noun. an engagement fought between two military forces

"The judicial combat is introduced by a writer of the fourteenth century, in a scene where Pilate challenges Jesus Christ to _single combat_."

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