War

What do we mean by war?

A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties. noun

The period of such conflict. noun

The techniques and procedures of war; military science. noun

A condition of active antagonism or contention. noun

A concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious. noun

To wage or carry on warfare. intransitive verb

To be in a state of hostility or rivalry; contend. intransitive verb

(at war) In an active state of conflict or contention. idiom

To defeat; worst.

A Middle English form of ware.

Same as worse.

A Middle English form of were.

To make or carry on war; carry on hostilities; fight.

To contend; strive violently; be in a state of opposition.

To make war upon; oppose, as in war; contend against.

To carry on, as a contest.

A contest beween nations or states (international war), or between parties in the same state (civil war), carried on by force of arms. noun

A state of active opposition, hostility, or contest: as, to be at war (that is, engaged in active hostilities). noun

Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.

A particular conflict of this kind.

(by extension) Any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.

Instruments of war.

Armed forces.

A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.

Does not determine who is right, but who is left. Urban Dictionary

An organized, violent conflict between two or more large groups of individuals, countries, societies, factions, tribes, etc. War has been waged by humans since time immemorial, first with rocks and sticks, then with bows and arrows and stone axes, then with progressively more advanced weapons. Wars have generally been fought for land, religion, political and ideological control and control of resources. Today, wars are waged with firearms, bombs, satellites, various forms of artillery mounted on a number of different weapons platforms. The number of weapons during the 20th century also expanded to include chemical, biological, and nuclear arms and each of those has seen limited use during that time period. Only one type of warfare is capable of wiping out the species that spawned it, and that is nuclear. Only this type of war has never been truly fought, outside of the destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Some of the wars fought during the last 14 years include conflicts in Iraq, Israel, Kashmir, Somalia, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Congo, Colombia, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Lebanon and Liberia. During the 20th century it is estimated that over 127 million people have lost their lives in war. Urban Dictionary

A pretty bitchin' card game played by children. Urban Dictionary

The thing that france is very bad at Urban Dictionary

A highly profitable business for the people in power. An excellent excuse to give away taxpayers money to large corporations instead of putting it to use for the betterment of society. It is a euphemism for terrorism. Urban Dictionary

An American Tradition. Urban Dictionary

God's way of teaching Americans Geography Urban Dictionary

A card game for two players in which each flips over a card--the higher card winning--proceed until the deck is exhausted. Urban Dictionary

Large scale battle between two opposing factions. Has existed since the development of tribal social systems before the beginning of recorded human history. Fact of life. Stems from the normal protective/survivalist human nature which emerges in those who are responsible to a cause. Urban Dictionary

“War is an extension of politics by other means.” Carl von Clausewitz Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to war:
war.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word war:
crimes, veterans, confederate, fought, succession, independence, commanded, enlisted, nazi, veteran, allied, memorial, allies, iraq, conflict, regiment, effort, infantry, occupation, vietnam, army.

Words that rhyme with war:
for, door, store, score, more, rapport, core, galore, bore, therefore, mentor, floor, sore, drawer, or, before, lore, ore, abhor, explore, soar, anymore, ignore, implore, corps, restore, nor, whore, furthermore, shore, pour, dinosaur, fore, decor, four, adore, gore, chore, your, roar, pore, sophomore, underscore, deplore, boar, encore, moore, oar, folklore, therefor, hoar, heretofore, offshore, account for, tor, uproar, yore, guarantor, hardcore, outdoor, cor, stevedore, carnivore, sycamore, troubadour, wore, tore, thor, evermore, backdoor, centaur, snore, spore, commodore, herbivore, doar, crore, ashore, salvador, dior, eyesore, orr, swore, ecuador, drugstore, look for, dore, lor, boer, onshore, mor, flor, labrador, matador, indoor, call for, seashore, singapore, bookstore, barrymore.

Adjectives that are often used to describe war:
civil, last, cold, nuclear, second, late, long, european, present, american, revolutionary, holy, total, open, modern, french, post, recent, japanese, turkish, pre, bloody, spanish, indian, third, limited, korean, german, mexican, future, global, scale, defensive, terrible, naval, trojan, crimean, just, aggressive, successful, imperialist, protracted, peloponnesian, conventional, prussian, year, undeclared, preventive, russian, disastrous, bitter, punic, dutch, offensive, impending, atomic, israeli, called, persian, man, cruel, perpetual, afghan, unjust, prolonged, algerian, anti.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective war:
period, years, time, world, era, days, level, reconstruction, movement, policy, boom, germany, europe, camp, conditions, britain, development, theory, history, situation, generation, camps, levels, japan, ships, settlement, economy, depression, planning, decades, politics, decade, developments, growth, making, poland, plans, prices, parties, production, expansion, governments, policies, france, recovery, figure, figures, consensus, weariness, crisis, periods, demonstrations, sentiment, paint, propaganda, clubs, inflation, prosperity, tradition, america, vessels, average, movements, standard, england, horses, immigrants, songs, cries, slump, doctrine, strategy, standards, industry, cry, pact, parity, programme.

Consonant match to war:
wear, wire, where, ware, weir, wore, whirr, wor, wier, whare, warre, wyre, warr, wehr, werre, woehr.

Words that sound like war:
war, wore, wor, warr, whare, woar, waar, wahr, where, wear, wire, ware, weir, waer, wher, wier, wair, wooer, weer, weare, werre, weigher, yre, werr, wehr, wyre, wyer, weyer, your, yore, yor, whore, hore, hor, hoar, horr, hoare, water, was, warm, were, ward, wars, worn, walker, warn, swore, wart, warp, wharf, wer, yar, whorl, warth, waller, warf, watr, warg, wark, warry, awar, warne, waugh, worg, wir, yaar, wasser, swar, quare, worp, warde, gwar, waws, huor, worx, fwar, twar, yarr, jaar, wonger, warsh, wur, wawe, phwoar, ywar, wirr, warb, warl, worb, warre, waru, wori, wharp, iwar, wora, wadr, warc, walr, warrie, -ure.