資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Combat \Com"bat\ (? or ?; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Combated};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Combating}.] [F. combattre; pref. com- +
   battre to beat, fr. L. battuere to strike. See {Batter}.]
   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.