Combat

1. n. An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
2. v. i. To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
3. v. t. To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
4. n. A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.