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[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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