war
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(noun) a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; "the war on poverty"; "the war against crime" |
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Related Words: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
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(noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war" |
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Synonyms: warfare |
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Related Words: Arab-Israeli War, BW, Balkan Wars, Boer War, Crimean War, Franco-Prussian War, French and Indian War, Hundred Years' War, Iran-Iraq War, Korean War, Mexican War, Napoleonic Wars, Peloponnesian War, Persian Gulf War, Punic Wars, Russo-Japanese War, Seven Years' War, Six Day War, Spanish War, Spanish-American War, Thirty Years' War, Trojan War, Vietnam War, War of the Austrian Succession, War of the Grand Alliance, War of the League of Augsburg, War of the Roses, War of the Spanish Succession, Wars of the Roses, Yom Kippur War, action, biological warfare, chemical operations, chemical warfare, civil war, hot war, jehad, jihad, limited war, military action, psychological warfare, war of nerves, world war |
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(verb) make or wage war |
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Related Words: blitzkrieg, fight, go to war, struggle, take arms, take up arms |
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Antonyms: make peace |
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(noun) an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare" |
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Synonyms: warfare |
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Related Words: battle, conflict, struggle |
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(noun) a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring" |
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Synonyms: state of war |
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Related Words: antagonism, enmity, hostility |
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Antonyms: peace |
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