combat
/kəmˈbæt/, /ˈkɑm·bæt/ v [T]Definition
› to try to stop something unpleasant or harmful from happening or increasing: We must try to combat poverty and illiteracy.
(Definition of combat v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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