Combat vs Altercation - What's the difference?

Combat is a related term of altercation.

As nouns the difference between combat and altercation

is that combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory while altercation is warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.

As a verb combat

is to fight with; to struggle for victory against.

combat

English

(wikipedia combat)

Noun

A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.

*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter

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Derived terms

* combat pay

Verb

To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

* Milton

To combat with a blind man I disdain.

Anagrams

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altercation

English

Noun

(en noun)

Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.

* (rfdate), Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

"What the hell is it to you who are my friends?" roared McMurdo in a voice which brought every head in the carriage round to witness the altercation .

Synonyms

* dispute, wrangle