war as a noun: - 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
as a verb: - 1
war
noun
1 war
The waging of armed conflict against an enemy:
— Thousands of people were killed in the war.
synonym: warfare.
Roget 722:
warfare;
fighting
etc.
v.;
hostilities;
war,
arms,
the sword;
Mars,
Bellona,
grim visaged war,
horrida bella [Lat.];
bloodshed.
appeal to arms,
appeal to the sword;
ordeal of battle;
wager of battle;
ultima ratio regum [Lat.],
arbitrament of the sword.
battle array,
campaign,
crusade,
expedition,
operations;
mobilization;
state of siege;
battlefield,
theater of operations
etc.
(arena)
728;
warpath.
art of war,
tactics,
strategy,
castrametation†;
generalship;
soldiership;
logistics;
military evolutions,
ballistics,
gunnery;
chivalry.
gunpowder,
shot.
battle,
tug of war
etc.
(contention)
720;
service,
campaigning,
active service,
tented field;
kriegspiel [G.],
Kriegsspiel [G.];
fire cross,
trumpet,
clarion,
bugle,
pibroch†,
slogan;
war-cry,
war-whoop;
battle cry,
beat of drum,
rappel,
tom-tom;
calumet of war;
word of command;
password,
watchword;
passage d-armes [Fr.].
war to the death,
war to the knife;
guerre a mort [Fr.],
guerre a outrance [Fr.];
open war,
internecine war,
civil war.
... show more
Dutch: krijgsvoering, krijg, oorlog, krijgsbedrijf, oorlogvoering
Polish: wojna
2 war
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.
synonym: state of war.
3 war
An active struggle between competing entities:
— A price war.
— A war of wits.
— Diplomatic warfare.
synonym: warfare.
4 war
A concerted campaign to end something that is injurious.
Polish: walka
verb
1 war
Moby thesaurus: American Revolution, Ares, Athena, Balkan Wars, Bellona, Boer War, Civil War, Crimean War, Crusades, Enyo, Franco-Prussian War, French Revolution, Gallic Wars, Greco-Persian Wars, Indian Wars, Indochina War, Kilkenny cats, Korean War, Mars, Mexican War, Minerva, Napoleonic Wars, Odin, Peloponnesian Wars, Persian Wars, Punic Wars, Russian Revolution, Russo-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War, Six Day War, Southeast Asian War, Tiu, Tyr, Vietnam War, Woden, World War I, Wotan, all-out war, altercation, appeal to arms, argument, armed combat, armed conflict, arms, art of war, attack, attempt, battle, belligerence, belligerency, bickering, bloodshed, box, brawl, broil, campaign, carry on hostilities, cat-and-dog life, challenge, chivalry, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, conflict, contend, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, crusade, cut and thrust, debate, disputation, dispute, drive, duel, endeavor, engage, engage in hostilities, enmity, essay, exchange blows, expedition, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fighting, generalship, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, holy war, hostilities, hostility, hot war, jihad, jostle, joust, knighthood, la guerre, litigation, logomachy, make war, might of arms, military operations, mix it up, open hostilities, open war, oppugn, paper war, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rassle, resort to arms, riot, run a tilt, scramble, scrapping, scuffle, shed blood, shooting war, skirmish, spar, spill blood, squabbling, state of war, strife, strive, struggle, take on, the sword, thrust and parry, tilt, total war, tourney, tug, tussle, wage war, war of words, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime, words, wrangling, wrestle ... show more.
debug info: 0.0219