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war English

Meaning war meaning

What does war mean?
Definitions in simple English

war Verb

— If you war with someone or something, you fight or battle with them.

war

— noun the waging of armed conflict against an enemy thousands of people were killed in the war — noun 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 — noun (= warfare) an active struggle between competing entities a price war a war of wits diplomatic warfare — noun a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious the war on poverty the war against crime — verb make or wage war

Synonyms war synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as war?

war English » English

battle fight combat warfare conflict fighting struggle military contest make war campaign strife quarrel disturbance wrestle state of war martial fight a war encounter army wage war spear hostility hostilities contend chest armed conflict wound weaponry warlike war power uprising unrest tug-of-war trouble troops squabble soldiers skirmish situation shield and halberd service scuffle scramble revolt repress rebellions rebellion quash pupil of eye

Topics war topics

What do people use war to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict

War
Social behavior Conflict

Fight
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble

Trouble
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Disaster
Social behavior Conflict

Hostility
Social behavior Conflict War

Prisoner of war
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Small animals
Person Life Die

Kill
Social behavior Government

Government functions
Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Fight against something bad
Social behavior Conflict War

Lose a fight
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Pull

  • What words refer to two or more people pulling on both ends of something?
    tug of war

Conjugation war conjugation

How do you conjugate war?

war · verb

Examples war examples

How do I use war in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The war lasted two years.
May there never be another world war!
My grandfather was killed in World War II.
It was a long war because neither side would give in.
When did World War II break out?
He lost two sons in the war.
Nobody likes war.
If you wish for peace, prepare for war.
They were, so to speak, casualties of war.
Both men opposed the war in Vietnam.
He was a soldier during the war.
I'm sick of this war.
One million people lost their lives in the war.
The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark.
Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much rancor between the Russians and the Germans, especially in areas once occupied by the Soviet Union.
Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much bitterness between Germans and Russians, especially in areas which were occupied by the Soviet Union.
Are you for the war or against it?
Do you believe war will start?
All the students protested against the war.
Nuclear war will bring life on this planet to an end.
A nuclear war will bring about the destruction of mankind.
All humanity will suffer if a nuclear war breaks out.
The Foreign Minister said that war was inevitable.
We are against war.
We must not go to war again.
We were taught that World War II broke out in 1939.
We must prevent a war by all possible means.
We must prevent war at any cost.
The family had a hard time after the war.
There never was a good war nor a bad peace.

Movie subtitles

War and terrorism.
I would at least like a world without war.
In that war, my father HAD to die!
Was it because a war in Annam, modern-day Vietnam, turned out to be more expensive than anyone had expected?
There's war, poverty, famine.
I started a war und killed millions of Jews!
To give you an idea just how sensitive Kepler is, I'm gonna demonstrate using this massive World War ll searchlight.
This is also the art of war. For the sake of winning.
War movie.
Held my grandfather's bowels intact in the trenches in the Great War.
It's been the best in its field since the First World War.
Douglas Bader, the pilot, was a patient here during World War II.
That's war.
Governments relied on the theory of mutually assured destruction to deter an all-out nuclear war, but this strategy will inevitably fail.
That's why. I would at least like a world without war. A place where we won't lose dear ones.
Oort wanted to detect and analyse that emission too, as soon as the war was over.
But back then there was only a small number of participants, because students could not attend and also because travel was difficult during the war.
After the war, Oort immediately wanted to build a large telescope, with a diameter of 25 meter.
And at the Technical School at Delft, no engineers had been trained during the war.
No surprise, because the Americans had a huge advance because they had a lot of experience with microwave techniques, which they had developed during the war.
You're sending him to Algeria, a war- and cholera-ridden land.
This is clearly a war to conquer and exterminate the Arabs.
Abd el-Kader has started a holy war against us.
He's waged a vast, cruel and ruthless war against us.
France is willing to respect your freedom. - If you stop the war. - It's not up to me.
My father, Si Kaddour, sent me to tell you Emir Abd el-Kader, the leader of the holy war, is ready to broker peace.
We value freedom! Only a holy war can bring freedom and independence.
This is no difference from a small scaled war.
There are many Kings who participated in war.
Don't you know after seeing the Gulf War? The US Navy marines who competed against them, were all defeated by them.
They helped us during the 625 Korean War, how can we-- Oh, you guys are from the North so you're probably not clear about it.
It should also be quite difficult for the Republic of South Korea to survive. If war were to breaks out between neighboring countries.
But then, what are we going to do if a war breaks out?
To us, the danger of war has always existed since the beginning.
Because of the danger of war which has always existed, unconditionally raise the white flag and present our country to them, surrendering totally.
I'm asking you, what's going on? It has already been announced that we're entering the third stage for war preparations.
It's war. The United States has declared that they'll attack Pyeongyang, then. Pyeongyang will immediately attack Seoul.
Even a woman like me who is unfamiliar with the arts of war can tell from your conduct and expression that you appear to be a man who could be slashed to death at any moment.
This is also the art of war.
I'd like to build up my war chest a little.

News and current affairs

NEW YORK - On May 8, 1945, when World War II in Europe officially ended, much of the world lay in ruins.
No doubt, millions of people at the end of the war were too hungry and exhausted to do anything much beyond staying alive.
That is why the war's great hero, Winston Churchill, was voted out of office in the summer of 1945, even before Japan surrendered.
This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs.
But in some ways the 1945 consensus, in the West, was strengthened by Cold War politics.
And the post-war social-democratic welfare state is being eroded more and more every day.
In 1989, it looked as if the dark legacy of World War II, the enslavement of Eastern Europe, was finally over.
Neoliberalism filled the vacuum, creating vast wealth for some people, but at the expense of the ideal of equality that had emerged from World War II.
But was it really a war that started on September 11, 2001?
With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II.
Together with Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan he had to leave government in 1974 in the wake of the Yom Kippur War.
In this way we can break free of the institutionalised tug of war that has characterised EU relations.
The advanced countries might mean Bangladesh and the disappearing island states no harm, but no war could be more devastating.
When I was seven years old, in 1960, my grandmother Angelica opened my eyes to the meaning of 8 May 1945, the day when Nazi Germany surrendered and World War II ended in Europe.
This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs. But in some ways the 1945 consensus, in the West, was strengthened by Cold War politics.
The old Cold War world order was based on the nuclear arms race between the two superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union.
The Bush administration conspired to lead Americans and others into an illegal war, using fabricated evidence to do so.
During the heyday of Irish terrorism in the UK, successive British governments went out of their way not to concede to the IRA the notion that a war was being waged.
But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.
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