Combat vs. Hostility — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Combat and Hostility
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Definitions
Combat
Combat (French for fight) is a purposeful violent conflict meant to physically harm or kill the opposition. Combat may be armed (using weapons) or unarmed (not using weapons).
Hostility
Hostility is seen as form of emotionally charged aggressive behavior. In everyday speech it is more commonly used as a synonym for anger and aggression.
Combat
To oppose in battle; fight against.
Hostility
The state of being hostile; antagonism or enmity.
Combat
To act or work in order to eliminate, curtail, or stop
Efforts to combat crime.
Drugs that combat infection.
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Hostility
A hostile act.
Combat
To engage in fighting; contend or struggle.
Hostility
Hostilities Acts of war; overt warfare.
Combat
Fighting, especially with weapons
Naval combat.
Hostility
(uncountable) The state of being hostile.
My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.
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Combat
Contention or strife
Rhetorical combat.
Hostility
(countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
Combat
Of or relating to combat
Flew 50 combat missions.
Hostility
State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
Combat
Intended for use or deployment in combat
Combat boots.
Combat troops.
Hostility
An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend.
Combat
A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used).
Hostility
A hostile (very unfriendly) disposition;
He could not conceal his hostility
Combat
A struggle for victory
Hostility
A state of deep-seated ill-will
Combat
(transitive) To fight; to struggle against.
It has proven very difficult to combat drug addiction.
Hostility
The feeling of a hostile person;
He could no longer contain his hostility
Combat
(intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).
Hostility
Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
Combat
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
To combat with a blind man I disdain.
After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters.
Hostility
Acts of overt warfare;
The outbreak of hostilities
Combat
To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
When he the ambitious Norway combated.
And combated in silence all these reasons.
Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled.
Combat
A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st.
The noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina.
Combat
An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
Combat
An engagement fought between two military forces
Combat
The act of fighting; any contest or struggle;
A fight broke out at the hockey game
There was fighting in the streets
The unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap
Combat
Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle;
The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq
We must combat the prejudices against other races
They battled over the budget
