Combat and Shootout

Combat

Combat noun - Active fighting during the course of a war.

Shootout and combat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shootout" instead a noun "Combat".

Shootout

Shootout noun - A fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten.
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Synonyms for Shootout

Combat and shootout are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Combat" instead a noun "Shootout".

Both words in one sentence

  • Very few human ships are powerful enough or large enough to combat a Berserker in a straight shootout.
  • Video Game / Tex Murphy Lampshaded in Tesla Effect, when Tex has a flashback to one of the combat sections from Mean Streets and says that he decided never to get into a shootout again.
  • Anime / Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex He's a combat android they'd left as a guard, the shootout he starts up alerts the meeting.
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