combat
verb (used with object)
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously.
self-combating
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a word derived from
combat.
Example Sentences
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But with the self-combating proclivity of the supersensitive, an answer thereto arose in Clare's own mind, and he almost feared it.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
