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combated

combated is the simple past and past participle of combat.

Meaning of combat

Verb

combat (third-person singular simple present combats, present participle combating or combatting, simple past and past participle combated or combatted)

  1. (transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
    • It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
  2. (intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
    • To combat with a blind man I disdain.1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

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Forms of combated

alternative formcombatted

Words formed from combated

Questions about combated

What is combated the simple past and past participle of?
Combated is the simple past and past participle of combat.

Words near combated in the dictionary

  1. combatability
  2. combatable
  3. combatant
  4. combatants
  5. combatative
  6. combated
  7. combater
  8. combaters
  9. combatest
  10. combateth
  11. combating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: combated (page history and authors); combat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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