Assert and Combat

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• An engagement fought between two military forces.
  • synonyms: armed combat
• The act of fighting; any contest or struggle.
  • usage: "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
  • synonyms: fight, fighting, scrap

verb

• Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle.
  • usage: "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget"
  • synonyms: battle

• (n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
• (v.i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
• (v.t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
• (n.) A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.