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combatted

combatted 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 combatted

alternative formcombated

Words formed from combatted

Questions about combatted

What is combatted the simple past and past participle of?
Combatted is the simple past and past participle of combat.

Words near combatted in the dictionary

  1. combatives
  2. combativities
  3. combativity
  4. combats
  5. combattant
  6. combatted
  7. combatting
  8. combatworthy
  9. combava
  10. combavas
  11. combe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: combatted (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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