Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun armed_combat

1 sense of armed combat

Sense 1
combat, armed combat -- (an engagement fought between two military forces)
       => battle, conflict, fight, engagement -- (a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement")