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combat
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French, from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”).
Pronunciation
- Noun:
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?m?bæt/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?m?bæt/
- Verb:
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?m?bæt/
- (US) IPA(key): /k?m?bæt/, /?k?m?bæt/
- Rhymes: -æt
Noun
combat (countable and uncountable, plural combats)
- A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "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; […]."
- a struggle for victory
Derived terms
- combat pay
- combatant
- combative
- stage combat
Translations
Verb
combat (third-person singular simple present combats, present participle combatting or combating, simple past and past participle combatted or combated)
- (transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
- It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
- (intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- To combat with a blind man I disdain.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
Translations
Anagrams
- M.B. coat, tombac
Catalan
Etymology
From combatre, attested from 1490.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /kom?bat/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kum?bat/
- Rhymes: -at
Noun
combat m (plural combats)
- combat
Verb
combat
- third-person singular present indicative form of combatre
- second-person singular imperative form of combatre
References
Further reading
- “combat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “combat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “combat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From combattre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.ba/
- Homophone: combats
Noun
combat m (plural combats)
- combat (hostile interaction)
- (figuratively) combat (contest; competition)
- (in the plural) battle; military combat
Derived terms
Verb
combat
- third-person singular present indicative of combattre
Further reading
- “combat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
combat m (plural combats)
- (Jersey) combat
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kom?bat]
Verb
combat
- first-person singular present indicative of combate
- third-person plural present indicative of combate
- first-person singular present subjunctive of combate
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affray
English
Alternative forms
- afray
Etymology
From Middle English affraien (“to terrify, frighten”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman afrayer (“to terrify, disquiet, disturb”) and Old French effreer, esfreer (“to disturb, remove the peace from”) (compare modern French effrayer), from Vulgar Latin *exfrid?re or from es- (“ex-”) + freer (“to secure, secure the peace”), from Frankish *friþu (“security, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace”), from *frij?n? (“to free; to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr?y-, *pr?y- (“to like, love”). Cognate with Old High German fridu (“peace”), Old English friþ (“peace, frith”), Old English fr?od (“peace, friendship”), German Friede (“peace”). Compare also afear. More at free, friend.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??f?e?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Verb
affray (third-person singular simple present affrays, present participle affraying, simple past and past participle affrayed)
- (archaic, transitive) To startle from quiet; to alarm.
- (archaic, transitive) To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
Related terms
- afraid
Noun
affray (countable and uncountable, plural affrays)
- The act of suddenly disturbing anyone; an assault or attack.
- 2015, 8 November, "Rugby league journalist Gary Carter critically ill after Bethnal Green attack", BBC News [1]
- A 22-year-old man was also arrested in connection with the incident for affray towards attending paramedics.
- 2015, 8 November, "Rugby league journalist Gary Carter critically ill after Bethnal Green attack", BBC News [1]
- A tumultuous assault or quarrel.
- The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
- (obsolete) Terror.
Synonyms
- fray, brawl
- alarm, terror, fright
Related terms
- fray
Translations
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