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▸ noun: (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
▸ noun: (countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
▸ noun: (countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly
▸ noun: (chiefly US) Campaigns against various social problems.
▸ noun: (business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
▸ noun: (crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
▸ noun: (Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
▸ noun: (obsolete, uncountable) An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Armed forces.
▸ noun: (uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
▸ verb: (transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
▸ noun: Preceded by the: designating a particularly notable war.
▸ noun: (obsolete) World War I.
▸ noun: (chiefly British, informal) World War II.
▸ noun: The personification of war, often depicted in armour and riding a red horse; the red rider.
▸ noun: A city in West Virginia, United States.
▸ noun: Initialism of White Aryan Resistance.
▸ noun: (computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Web application archive (a Java archive file).
▸ noun: (military, historical) Initialism of Winchester Automatic Rifle.
▸ noun: Initialism of Women Against Registry.
▸ noun: (computing) Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.
▸ noun: (sports) Acronym of wins above replacement.
Similar:
warfare,
state of war,
wartime,
invasion,
WWII,
conflict,
WWI,
Boer War,
trench warfare,
Iraq,
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Types:
civil war,
revolutionary war,
world war,
cold war,
hot war,
proxy war,
total war,
asymmetric war,
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