COMBATTED
COMBAT
battle, combat
(verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; “The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq”; “We must combat the prejudices against other races”; “they battled over the budget”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
combatted
simple past tense and past participle of combat
Source: Wiktionary
COMBAT
Com"bat ( or ; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Combated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Combating.] Etym: [F. combattre; pref. com- + battre to beat, fr. L.
battuere to strike. See Batter.]
Definition: To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton.
After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the
choice of masters. Gibbon.
Com"bat, v. t.
Definition: To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend
against; to resist.
When he the ambitious Norway combated. Shak.
And combated in silence all these reasons. Milton.
Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled. Goldsmith.
Syn.
– To fight against; resist; oppose; withstand; oppugn; antagonize;
repel; resent.
Com"bat, n. Etym: [Cf. F. combat.]
1. A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st. Shak.
The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina.
Shak.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the
parties engaged are not armies. Single combat, one in which a single
combatant meets a single opponent, as in the case of David and
Goliath; also a duel.
Syn.
– A battle; engagement; conflict; contest; contention; struggle;
fight, strife. See Battle, Contest.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition