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Combat vs Gainsay - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between combat and gainsay

is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while gainsay is to contradict; to withsay; to deny, refute; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

As a noun combat

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

combat

English

(wikipedia combat)

Noun

  • A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
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  • *:"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
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat .}}

    Derived terms

    * combat pay

    Verb

  • To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
  • * Milton
    • To combat with a blind man I disdain.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    gainsay

    English

    Verb

  • To contradict; to withsay; to deny, refute; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.
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  • * 1902 , , The Hound of the Baskervilles :
    • Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion (the history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend to your attention) this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date=2012-07-07 , first= , last= , author= , authorlink= , coauthors= , title= Griffith acted, and lived, by Golden Rule , newspaper=The Post and Courier , city=Charleston , publisher=Evening Post Publishing , quotee= citation , page=5, Features , passage=And there was something childlike about Griffith, too, even in his Matlock days, as a deceptively sharp 'simple country lawyer,' a big-kid boyishness that did not mask his intelligence or gainsay his authority. }}

    Derived terms

    * gainsayer * gainsaying