war
IPA: wˈɔr
noun
- (uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
- (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
- (countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
- (countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly
- (chiefly US) Campaigns against various social problems.
- (business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
- (crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
- (Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
- (obsolete, uncountable) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
- (obsolete) Armed forces.
- (uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
- Preceded by the: designating a particularly notable war.
- (obsolete) World War I.
- (chiefly Britain, informal) World War II.
- The personification of war, often depicted in armour and riding a red horse; the red rider.
- A city in West Virginia, United States.
- Initialism of White Aryan Resistance.
- (computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Web application archive (a Java archive file)
- (military, historical) Initialism of Winchester Automatic Rifle.
- (computing) Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.
- (sports) Acronym of wins above replacement.
verb
- (intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
- (transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
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Examples of "war" in Sentences
- _It is the war which kills slavery, and not the man who leads the war_.
- Thats funny Lynn Cheney is a war monger of the AEI enterprise$$ for$$ war$$ think tank.
- At the same time, if we have the choice of continued war or a cowardly peace -- _we vote for war_.
- Bushs insistence that he treated war with Iraq as a last resort and that Saddam Hussein was the one who chose war by refusing to let
- While the phrase The war to end war is often associated with Woodrow Wilson, its authorship was claimed by Wells in an article in Liberty, December 29, 1934, p. 4.
- Edwards: "End 'preventive war' doctrine" yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Edwards: "End \'preventive war\' doctrine "'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: John Edwards talks about ending Bush\'s" preventative war doctrine "and how to diplomatically engage with Iran. '
- VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Chomsky: \'There Is No War On Terror\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' The acclaimed critic of U.S. foreign policy analyzes Bush\'s current political troubles, the war on Iraq, and what\'s really behind the global \'war on terror.
- VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a guy really anxious for war in Iraq.
- VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'American plans to loot Iraqi oil and other Bush war crimes'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Though Bush has given every other lie and cover story to justify the US war of aggression against Iraq, the real reasons for the \'war\' are now openly admitted.
- If Iraq is key to Bush's 'terror war' ... we're losing yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'If Iraq is key to Bush\'s \'terror war\' ... we\'re losing '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: If Democrats are going to continue to acknowledge Bush\'s \'terror war\ ', they should oblige him and aggressively tie it to the quagmire in Iraq and his regime\'s wallowing failures elsewhere in the world.'
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