Combat vs Oppugn - What's the difference?
combat | oppugn | Synonyms |
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
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, title= To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
* Milton
(rare) To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.
* 1761 (Laurence Sterne), , volume III, page 180, London: R. and J. Dodsley.
*:It is for the same reason, that is, because 'tis all comprehended in Slawkenbergius, that I say nothing likewise of Scroderus (Andrea) who all the world knows, set himself to oppugn Prignitz with great violence, ---- proving it in his own way, first logically, and then by a series of stubborn facts
As verbs the difference between combat and oppugn
is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while oppugn is to contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.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
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Derived terms
* combat payVerb
- To combat with a blind man I disdain.