LekhoriLekhoriA battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
"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;[…]."
a struggle for victory
To fight; to struggle against.
It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
16th century, borrowed from Middle French combat, deverbal from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin com- (“with”) + battuere (“to beat, strike”).
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To combat with a blind man I disdain.