1. fighting between armed forces: "men killed in combat"
▪ nonviolent conflict or opposition:"intellectual combat"
verb
1. take action to reduce or prevent (something bad or undesirable): "an effort to combat drug trafficking"
▪ engage in a fight with; oppose in battle:"your men combated against the first of ours"
Word Originmid 16th century (originally denoting a fight between two people or parties): from French combattre (verb), from late Latin combattere, from com- ‘together with’ + battere, variant of Latin batuere ‘to fight’.
