noun. Plural form of combat.

verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of combat.

"If this fighting was a single act, there would be no necessity for any further subdivision, but the fight is composed of a greater or less number of single acts, complete in themselves, which we call combats, as we have shown in the first chapter of the first book, and which form new units."

Cats  Mats  Platz  at-bats  bats  

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