combat
verb (used with object)
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously.
had combated
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past perfectof combat.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In the previous seven weeks, doctors at Yale University had combated Peal’s melanoma with two of the most promising drugs in cancer treatment.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2016
In the seven weeks prior, doctors at Yale had combated Mr. Peal’s melanoma with two of the most promising drugs in cancer treatment today.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2016
The intervening time between past and present closed up for him, and moved by an impulse which he had combated for fifteen years, he seized her two hands and drew her towards him.
From A Changed Man; and other tales by Thomas Hardy
But when, months ago, she had combated and worn out her sorrow, it had been followed by an indifference to any further suffering that she might yet have to experience in life.
From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus
He saw the oppression they had combated now humbled and overthrown; and he forms the third in a sequence of family renown, the most surprising and the least checkered afforded by the annals of Europe.
From Holland The History of the Netherlands by Thomas Colley Grattan
