Combat and Thwart

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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Thwart and combat are semantically related. in obstruct topic. In some cases you can use "Thwart" instead a verb "Combat".

Thwart verb - To prevent from achieving a goal.

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Combat and thwart are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Combat" instead a verb "Thwart".

Nearby Words: thwarted, thwarting

gang	combat gang	thwart gang
destruction	combat destruction	thwart destruction
evil	combat evil	thwart evil
villain	combat villain	thwart villain
Other words: invasion, threat, times, schemes, enemies, aliens, villains, terrorists.

The wider pop-culture conception of Satan is often rather different from the Biblical picture, tending, perhaps for dramatic reasons, to make him a much less formidable figure that mortal agencies can realistically combat and thwart.

Source: Analysis / Satan
Here, the "militant" refers not to actual violence but the spiritual combat that believers undergo to thwart the Devil and his temptations so as to become a member of the Church Triumphant.

Source: Church Militant
Where the book ends with the protagonists' flight from Akeley's farm and back home, the movie goes on to have him thwart a ritual preceding an Alien Invasion by the Mi-Go, and fight them in a mid-air combat scene.

Source: Film / The Whisperer in Darkness

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