combat
verb (used with object)
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously.
am combating
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present progressiveof combat (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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We read, in the author I am combating, "What shall we say of the fairies, a prodigy so notorious and so common?"
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
And you may see those very persons, whose opinions I am combating, frequently urging on the young by praises, and frequently checking them by rebukes, though pleasure follows the one, pain the other.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
In the present chapter, therefore, we may confine ourselves chiefly to a consideration of the stories and poems which have fostered the belief I am combating.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
How is it possible to reconcile this short, explicit, and unambiguous provision with the theory I am combating?
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
