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single combat - a fight between two people; "in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat"

fighting, combat, fight, scrap - the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

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Philoctetes is healed by Machaon, fights in single combat with Alexandrus and kills him: the dead body is outraged by Menelaus, but the Trojans recover and bury it.

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Alexandrus and Menelaus are to fight for Helen in single combat, that she and all her wealth may go with him who is the victor.

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Here she presently challenged Partridge to single combat.

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