War \War\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Warred; p. pr. & vb. n.
Warring.]
1. To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with
force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state
by violence.
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Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of
Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem
to war against it. --Isa. vii. 1.
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Why should I war without the walls of Troy? --Shak.
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Our countrymen were warring on that day! --Byron.
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2. To contend; to strive violently; to fight. "Lusts which
war against the soul." --1 Pet. ii. 11.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
warring
See war
WordNet (r) 2.0
war
n 1: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of
people were killed in the war" [syn: warfare]
2: 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" [syn: state
of war] [ant: peace]
3: an active struggle between competing entities; "a price
war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare" [syn: warfare]
4: a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious;
"the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"
v : make or wage war [ant: make peace]
[also: warring, warred]
WordNet (r) 2.0
warring
adj : engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a
fighting war" [syn: belligerent, fighting, militant,
war-ridden]
WordNet (r) 2.0
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "warring":
aggressive, ajar, all-out war, antagonistic, appeal to arms,
armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, battling, bellicose,
belligerence, belligerency, belligerent, bloodshed, bloodthirsty,
bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, clashing, combat,
combative, conflicting, confused, contending, contentious,
contestant, contesting, disputant, enemy, ferocious, fierce,
fighting, full of fight, grating, harsh, hawkish, hostile,
hostilities, hot war, inimical, jangling, jangly, jarring, jingo,
jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jostling, la guerre, martial,
might of arms, militant, militaristic, military,
military operations, offensive, open hostilities, open war,
pugnacious, quarrelsome, resort to arms, saber-rattling,
sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shooting war,
soldierlike, soldierly, state of war, striving, struggling,
the sword, total war, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly,
unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, war, warfare, warlike,
warmaking, warmongering, wartime
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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