combat
verb (used with object)
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously.
was combatting
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past progressiveof combat.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Congress lambasted the FDA for the shortages and started requiring the agency to prove every year how it was combatting the problem.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025
Last week Sears, Roebuck, faced with declining sales, announced a salary freeze for 20,000 of its 330,000 employees; Macy's was combatting speculation that recent losses might undermine its already precarious financial position.
From Time Magazine Archive
How could Reid imagine he was combatting that doctrine when he wrote thus?
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
The girl was doing her best to haul in one of the sunken lines, but the hidden force beneath the surface was combatting her strength fiercely.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey
His rival was combatting it with undisguised ridicule, accompanied with bursts of laughter.
From In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
