war > noun 1, actMeaning | The waging of armed conflict against an enemy. |
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Examples | "thousands of people were killed in the war" |
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Synonyms | warfare |
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Category of | de-escalation; side; plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter; war, state of war |
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Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
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Parts | battle, conflict, fight, engagement; combat, armed combat; aggression |
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Narrower | limited war; psychological warfare, war of nerves; civil war; chemical warfare, chemical operations; biological warfare, BW, biological attack, biologic attack, bioattack; information warfare, IW; jihad, jehad, international jihad; world war; Chino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War; Macedonian War; Arab-Israeli War, Six-Day War, Six Day War; Arab-Israeli War, Yom Kippur War; Balkan Wars; Boer War; Crimean War; Franco-Prussian War; French and Indian War; Hundred Years' War; Iran-Iraq War, Gulf War; Korean War; Mexican War; Napoleonic Wars; Peloponnesian War; Persian Gulf War, Gulf War; Punic War; Russo-Japanese War; Seven Years' War; Spanish-American War, Spanish War; Thirty Years' War; Trojan War; Vietnam War, Vietnam; War of Greek Independence; War of the Austrian Succession; War of the Grand Alliance, War of the League of Augsburg; War of the Spanish Succession; War of the Roses, Wars of the Roses; War of 1812; hot war |
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Broader | military action, action |
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Verbs | war |
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