| combat | (noun) an engagement fought between two military forces | Synonyms: armed combat |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: fight, fighting, scrap |
| (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
| combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
| combative | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, bellicose |
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| (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
| (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, agonistical |
| combatively | (adverb) in a bellicose contentious manner | Synonyms: scrappily |
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| combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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| embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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| (verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
| embattled | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, crenelated |
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| (adjective) prepared for battle | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict | - |
| noncombatant | (adjective) member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon | - |
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| (adjective) used of civilians in time of war | - |
| (noun) a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon) | - |
| numbat | (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: anteater, banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus |
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| wombat | (noun) burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger | - |
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