Combat vs Dissension - What's the difference?

Combat is a related term of dissension.

As nouns the difference between combat and dissension

is that combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory while dissension is an act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.

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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dissension

English

Noun

An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.

Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.

* 1843 , E.A.Poe,

The natural scenery of America has often been contrasted, in its general features as well as in detail, with the landscape of the Old World—more especially of Europe—and not deeper has been the enthusiasm, than wide the dissension , of the supporters of each region.