combat
verb (used with object)
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously.
have combated
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present perfectof combat.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Experts say the refurbished phone was likely loaded with spyware, and that she could have combated this by restoring factory settings before setting it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Ivanka Trump joined Pompeo in handing out awards to 10 men and women who have combated human trafficking in their home countries.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2018
“Scientific advances have combated stigma around a wide variety of brain diseases, but not addiction.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2016
Police have combated that violence with the use of "gang audits" — the sharing of gang intelligence between specialized citywide units and district personnel — and the daily influx of overtime officers.
From Chicago Tribune ● Dec. 31, 2014
That people should have combated pessimism as if it had been a philosophy, was the very acme of learned stupidity.
From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
