Combat
Combat noun - Active fighting during the course of a war.
Usage example: a soldier who served throughout the war without actually seeing combat
Hostilities and combat are semantically related. in battle topic. In some cases you can use "Hostilities" instead a noun "Combat".
Hostilities
Hostilities noun - Fighting; acts of overt warfare.
Usage example: the outbreak of hostilities
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- engagement and combat
- engagement and hostilities
- hostility and combat
- hostility and hostilities
- action and combat
- action and hostilities
- encounter and combat
- encounter and hostilities
- contest and combat
- contest and hostilities
- confrontation and combat
- confrontation and hostilities
- struggle and combat
- struggle and hostilities
Both words in one sentence
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And then when they find Earth, the first response humans have is of violence towards them, to the point where they end up having to make some combat androids to counter the human's hostilities.
Source: Manga / Mahoromatic
Cite this Source
Hostilities and Combat. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/combat/hostilities
Combat & Hostilities. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/combat/hostilities>.
Hostilities or Combat. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/combat/hostilities.
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