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Definition of: war
(wôr) noun
1. A contest between or among nations or states, or between different parties in the same state, carried on by force and with arms.
2. Any act or state of hostility; enmity; strife; also, a contest or conflict.
3. Poetic a A battle. b The supplies and paraphernalia of war. c Armed troops; an army. See table MAJOR WARS OF HISTORY on page 1417.
4. The science or art of military operations; strategy.
—v.i. warred, war·ring
1. To wage war; fight or take part in a war.
2. To be in any state of active opposition; contend; strive.
—adjective Of or pertaining to, used in, or resulting from war. [OE wyrre, werre <AF werre <OHG werra strife, confusion]
War may appear as a combining form in hyphemes or solidemes, or as the first element in two–word phrases:
| war–blasted | war–making |
| war–born | war march |
| war–breeder | war–marked |
| war–breeding | war neurosis |
| war bride | war office |
| war–broken | war party |
| war budget | war prisoner |
| war chant | war–production |
| war chief | war–proof |
| war cloud | war–ridden |
| war code | war–risk |
| warcraft | war service |
| war–debt | war–shaken |
| war–disabled | war song |
| war dog | war–stirring |
| war drum | war–swept |
| war–famed | war talk |
| war–footing | war tax |
| war gains | wartime |
| war–god | war–torn |
| war–goddess | war–tossed |
| war–hardened | war traitor |
| war–impoverished | war vessel |
| war insurance | war–wasted |
| war law | war–wearied |
| war leader | war–weary |
| war loan | war–work |
| war–loving | war–worker |
| war–machine | war–worn |
| war–made | warworthy |
| war–maimed | war–wounded |
| war–maker | war zone |
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