armed combat

Other forms: armed combats

Definitions of armed combat
  1. noun
    an engagement fought between two military forces
    synonyms: combat
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    types:
    belligerency, hostilities
    fighting; acts of overt warfare
    trench warfare
    a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other
    aggression
    the act of initiating hostilities
    type of:
    battle, conflict, engagement, fight
    a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
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