war
争夺战,争战,争斗,争夺战争
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Definitions
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- : a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
- : a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations: The two nations were at war with each other.
- : a contest carried on by force of arms, as in a series of battles or campaigns: the War of 1812.
- : armed fighting, as a science, profession, activity, or art; methods or principles of waging armed conflict: War is the soldier's business.
- : active hostility or contention; conflict; contest: a war of words.
- : aggressive business conflict, as through severe price cutting in the same industry or any other means of undermining competitors: a fare war among airlines; a trade war between nations.
- : a struggle to achieve a goal: the war on cancer;a war against poverty;a war for hearts and minds.
- : Cards. a game for two or more persons, played with a 52-card pack evenly divided between the players, in which each player turns up one card at a time with the higher card taking the lower, and in which, when both turned up cards match, each player lays one card face down and turns up another, the player with the higher card of the second turn taking all the cards laid down.an occasion in this game when both turned up cards match.
- : Archaic. a battle.
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warred, war·ring.
- : to make or carry on war; fight: to war with a neighboring nation.
- : to carry on active hostility or contention: Throughout her life she warred with sin and corruption.
- : to be in conflict or in a state of strong opposition: The temptation warred with his conscience.
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- : of, belonging to, used in, or due to war: war preparations; war hysteria.
Phrases
- ward off
- war horse
- war of nerves
- all's fair in love and war
- at war
- been to the wars
- declare war
- tug of war
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
In a distant, war-torn land, there were 13 castles — three more than the usual 10 from prior battles.
Much of Silicon Valley, in a hyperbolically named “war for talent,” followed suit.
When the war ended, however, those ceilings were lifted, and unsurprisingly the price of meat skyrocketed.
Mulan’s elderly father is being called away to war, and he has no son to go in his place.
Baggott doesn’t end the fight but puts it in context by digging up the family feuds which started the war.
They are, to say the least, preparing for civil war (the polling stations are stormed by armed gangs).
But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition.
He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.
His 6,000 native auxiliaries (as it proved later on) could not be relied upon in a civil war.
"There is no more war," Brion translated for Ulv, realizing that the Disan had understood nothing of the explanation.
I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.
We were now masters of the whole country, and the war was apparently at an end.