Combat and Meet

Combat

Combat verb - To strive to reduce or eliminate.

Usage example: must marshal all of our resources to combat this disease

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Meet and combat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Meet" instead the word "Combat" as a verb or a noun.

Meet verb - To come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face.

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Combat and meet are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Combat" instead the word "Meet" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Word: meeting

close	close combat	close meet
long	long combat	long meet
standard	standard combat	standard meet
original	original combat	original meet
Other adjectives: proper, single, real, personal, magic, final, next.

This is invoked when Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, in Fritz Leiber's "Swords in the Mist", where the two heroes meet unexpectedly as the champions of opposite sides in an arranged combat.

Source: Ham-to-Ham Combat
Very interestingly averted: when Cary Elwes and Chris Sarandon finally meet, it looks like they're about to engage in ham-to-ham combat, but Elwes' character instead instantly defeats the prince with his classic To the Pain speech.

Source: Ham-to-Ham Combat
As one of his trials to become Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange had to meet Death in combat.

Source: Sheathe Your Sword