War is armed combat between two or more countries or between different groups of people within the same country. As the soul singer Edwin Starr asked, "War! Huh! What is it good for?" Absolutely nothing.
Ware; aware.
Noun
a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; "the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"
Noun
the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"
Noun
an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare"
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"
Verb
make or wage war
a.
Ware; aware.
n.
A contest between nations or states, carried on by force,
whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for
the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for
obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the
other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers;
declared and open hostilities.
n.
A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical
force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is
treason.
n.
Instruments of war.
n.
Forces; army.
n.
The profession of arms; the art of war.
n.
a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an
inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
v. t.
To make war upon; to fight.
v. t.
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
War
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Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed.
His complement of stores, and total war.4.
On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war.5.
Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth.6.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.
War
To war the Scot, and borders to defend.2.
That thou . . . mightest war a good warfare.
Ware; aware.
A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
To make war upon; to fight.
Usage Examples
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
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Other Usage ExamplesA prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.