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UK
/kˈɒmbætənt/
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[ US /kəmˈbætənt/ ]
[ US /kəmˈbætənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- engaging in or ready for combat
NOUN
- someone who fights (or is fighting)
How To Use combatant In A Sentence
- I remember spending as much time reading the contents of the books in Deus Ex and Fable, and reading the pads in Doom 3, as I ever spent actually trying to beat combatants. Some Thoughts, Part Seven – Games « The Graveyard
- That is, a flying disk that will "locate defiladed combatants in complex urban terrain" and annihilate them using a bunker-buster warhead. Pentagon to Cities: Drop Dead
- In short, if the US government said the person was a civilian -- not a member of a foreign army or an irregular, but some nebulous sort of 'combatant' entitled to no more rights than a civilian -- it is estopped from claiming otherwise now. Discourse.net: Nation Mag Claims ICE has Network of Secret Detention Faciilities -- in the USA
- Their disillusionment is often due in no small part to the deception and coercion employed by local commanders and combatants.
- The two combatants charged at each other with weapons drawn and fought like savage beasts.
- We haven ` t felt it necessary to turn a lot of people into enemy combatants, as we have in this conflict, which is -- and I understand that after 9/11, there was a great desire to -- and I think right now, we should be -- kind of calibrate our responses because I think some of ... CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2005
- Veterans Affairs that, as a paratrooper and artilleryman, he exchanged fire with enemy combatants and was engaged in an incident of friendly fire. William Devereaux
- The exit polls, other postelection surveys and an array of combatants from both sides are full of gobbets of tasty fare.
- Fists fly as Eagles sink Sharks THEIR bitter rivalry was born out of the code's most brutal grand final 37 years ago and last night beachboy combatants Cronulla and Manly wound back the clock as the fists flew again in the Sea Eagles '18-4 trial match win. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
- So unless a cease-fire is secured, the combatants on both sides will hold sway.