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US
/ˈwɔɹ/
]
[ UK /wˈɔː/ ]
[ UK /wˈɔː/ ]
VERB
- make or wage war
NOUN
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the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
thousands of people were killed in the war -
an active struggle between competing entities
diplomatic warfare
a price war
a war of wits -
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 -
a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
the war against crime
the war on poverty
How To Use war In A Sentence
- At the iron railings turn left into the war memorial gardens. Times, Sunday Times
- Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
- They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
- The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- The speech was brimming with ideas for rewarding work and reducing dependency. Times, Sunday Times
- The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)