Usually means: Actively fighting against or opposing.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word combating:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. combating: Merriam-Webster
  2. combating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. combating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Combating, combating: Wordnik
  5. combating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. combating: Wiktionary
  7. Combating, combating: Dictionary.com
  8. combating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Combating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Combating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. combating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. combating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. combating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. combating: Legal dictionary

(Note: See combat as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Combating)

▸ verb:  Alternative spelling of combatting: present participle and gerund of combat

Similar:
fight, battle, armed combat, eradicate, counteract, counter, prevent, alleviate, tackling, overcoming, more...

Opposite:
promoting, encouraging, supporting, aiding, facilitating

Types:
fighting, battling, waging, struggling, more...

Phrases:
combating terrorism, Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill, Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, more...

Adjectives:
successful, false, worth, effective, direct, indirect, systematic, vigorous, energetic, long, much

Colors:
    red,     black,     navy blue,     olive green,     dark gray, more...

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Similar:
fight, battle, armed combat, eradicate, counteract, counter, prevent, alleviate, tackling, overcoming, more...

Opposite:
promoting, encouraging, supporting, aiding, facilitating

Types:
fighting, battling, waging, struggling, more...

Phrases:
combating terrorism, Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill, Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, more...

Adjectives:
successful, false, worth, effective, direct, indirect, systematic, vigorous, energetic, long, much

Colors:
    red,     black,     navy blue,     olive green,     dark gray, more...



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