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Definitions of 'WAR' Wordnet 

1. (noun) war, warfare
the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
"thousands of people were killed in the war"

2. (noun) war, state of 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"

3. (noun) war, warfare
an active struggle between competing entities
"a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare"

4. (verb) war
a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
"the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"

5. (verb) war
make or wage war


Definitions of 'WAR' Webster 1913 Dictionary 

1. (adj) WAR
ware; aware

2. (noun) WAR
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

3. (noun) WAR
a condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason

4. (noun) WAR
instruments of war

5. (noun) WAR
forces; army

6. (noun) WAR
the profession of arms; the art of war

7. (noun) WAR
a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility

8. (verb) WAR
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

9. (verb) WAR
to contend; to strive violently; to fight

10. (verb) WAR
to make war upon; to fight

11. (verb) WAR
to carry on, as a contest; to wage


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