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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.

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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

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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

War , a. Ware; aware. [Obs.] Chaucer.

War

War , n. [OE. & AS. werre; akin to OHG. werra scandal, quarrel, sedition, werran to confound, mix, D. warren, G. wirren, verwirren, to embroil, confound, disturb, and perhaps to E. worse; cf. OF. werre war, F. querre, of Teutonic origin. Cf. Guerrilla, Warrior.] 1. 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.

Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed.

&hand; As war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. A war begun by attacking another nation, is called an offensive war, and such attack is aggressive. War undertaken to repel invasion, or the attacks of an enemy, is called defensive. 2. (Law) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason. 3. Instruments of war. [Poetic]

His complement of stores, and total war.

4. Forces; army. [Poetic]

On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war.

5. The profession of arms; the art of war.

Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth.

6. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. "Raised impious war in heaven." Milton.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.

Civil war, a war between different sections or parties of the same country or nation. -- Holy war. See under Holy. -- Man of war. (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Public war, a war between independent sovereign states. -- War cry, a cry or signal used in war; as, the Indian war cry. -- War dance, a dance among savages preliminary to going to war. Among the North American Indians, it is begun by some distinguished chief, and whoever joins in it thereby enlists as one of the party engaged in a warlike excursion. Schoolcraft. -- War field, a field of war or battle. -- War horse, a horse used in war; the horse of a cavalry soldier; especially, a strong, powerful, spirited horse for military service; a charger. -- War paint, paint put on the face and other parts of the body by savages, as a token of going to war. "Wash the war paint from your faces." Longfellow. -- War song, a song of or pertaining to war; especially, among the American Indians, a song at the war dance, full of incitements to military ardor. -- War whoop, a war cry, especially that uttered by the American Indians.

War

War , v. t. 1. To make war upon; to fight. [R.]

To war the Scot, and borders to defend.

2. To carry on, as a contest; to wage. [R.]

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.

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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.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A 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.