Found 5 hits - Term: warring, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
war \war\, v. i. imp. p. p. warred; p. pr. vb. n.
warring.
1. 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.
1913 webster
rezin the king of syria, and pekah the son of
remaliah, king of israel, went up toward jerusalem
to war against it. --isa. vii. 1.
1913 webster
why should i war without the walls of troy? --shak.
1913 webster
our countrymen were warring on that day --byron.
1913 webster
2. to contend; to strive violently; to fight. "lusts which
war against the soul." --1 pet. ii. 11.
1913 webster
see also:
warred warring
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
warring
see war
see also:
war
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
war
n 1: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of
people were killed in the war" syn: warfare
2: 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" syn: state
of war ant: peace
3: an active struggle between competing entities; "a price
war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare" syn: warfare
4: a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious;
"the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"
v : make or wage war ant: make peace
also: warring, warred
see also:
warfare state of war peace make peace warring warred
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
warring
adj : engaged in war; "belligerent or warring nations"; "a
fighting war" syn: belligerent, fighting, militant,
war-ridden
see also:
belligerent fighting militant war-ridden
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
88 moby thesaurus words for "warring":
aggressive, ajar, all-out war, antagonistic, appeal to arms,
armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, battling, bellicose,
belligerence, belligerency, belligerent, bloodshed, bloodthirsty,
bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, clashing, combat,
combative, conflicting, confused, contending, contentious,
contestant, contesting, disputant, enemy, ferocious, fierce,
fighting, full of fight, grating, harsh, hawkish, hostile,
hostilities, hot war, inimical, jangling, jangly, jarring, jingo,
jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jostling, la guerre, martial,
might of arms, militant, militaristic, military,
military operations, offensive, open hostilities, open war,
pugnacious, quarrelsome, resort to arms, saber-rattling,
sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shooting war,
soldierlike, soldierly, state of war, striving, struggling,
the sword, total war, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly,
unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, war, warfare, warlike,
warmaking, warmongering, wartime
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