0 past simple and past participle of combat
Both of these tasks are workintensive, resulting in labour bottlenecks that farmers have long combatted by employing seasonal labour migrants (firdou).
It was a meaningful niche in the family nexus which combatted modern cultural influences.
Let there be no doubt, corruption and fraud must be combatted, beginning with the prevention of fraud at home.
We agree that racism needs to be combatted, but this is something to be tackled at national level.
These phenomena cannot be combatted with measures to police social life and measures of containment, which are proposed in the report.
Intolerance and hatred are scourges which must be combatted with solidarity.
Threats will need to be combatted by secret as well as by overt means.
It is quite ridiculous to claim that crime cannot be effectively combatted without frontier controls.