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war

(w/A/R )

the waging of armed conflict against an enemy(noun.act)

Example:
Thousands of people were killed in the war.

Synonym:
warfare

source: wordnet30
a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply(noun.state)

Example:
War was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring.

Synonym:
state of war
Antonym:
peace

source: wordnet30
an active struggle between competing entities(noun.act)

Example:
A price war.
A war of wits.
Diplomatic warfare.

source: wordnet30
a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious(noun.act)

Example:
The war on poverty.
The war against crime.

source: wordnet30
A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.(noun)

source: webster1913

make or wage war(verb.competition)

Antonym:
make peace

source: wordnet30
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.(verb)

source: webster1913
To make war upon; to fight.(verb)

source: webster1913

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