Combat
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To fight; to struggle for victory
Example sentence: What does it say about a country that has to force its women into combat?
Scrap
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A (small) leftover piece.(usually plural) leftover food.Discarded material (especially metal), junk.A fight, tussle, skirmish.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to discardto scrapbook; to create scrapbooksto dispose at the scrapyardto make into scrapto fight
Example sentence: There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.