War

Noun

 * 1)  Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
 * 2)  A particular conflict of this kind.
 * 3)  By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
 * 4)  A campaign against something.
 * 5)  A bout of fierce competition in trade.
 * 6)  A particular card game for two players.

Verb

 * 1)  To engage in conflict.

Adjectives for War
grim; impending; universal; increasing; horrible; aboriginal; glorified; inevitable; imminent; classical; barbarous; undeclared; virtuous; fratricidal; open; manful; cormorant; victorious; fearful; intrepid; successive (plural); deadly; successful; tribal; unearthly; meritorious; righteous; unholy; interminable; raging; ensuing; disastrous; banded; brutal; pelting; unvanquished; unjust; incessant; rebellious; devastating; nonsparing; silvan; plangent; elemental; imperialist; contemplated; ghastly; mercenary; renewed; silent; sanguinary; strenuous; social; servile; innocent; irrepressible; intellectual; contumelious; beastly; mad-brained; realistic; fierce; courageous; petty; theologic; religious; witching; tremendous; passive; suicidal; glorious; brooding; vigorous; impious; exhausting; guerrilla; diabolical; ruthless; expensive; aggressive; ferocious; defensive; internecine; offensive; desolating; mimic; mustering; bitter;

Verbs for War
abstain from—; aggravate—; anticipate—; avert—; banish—; cease—; control—; dedicate to—; determine—; dramatize—; dread —; drift into—; embrace—; entangle in—; enter—; envisage—; fend off—; flame into—; foment—; gird for—; halt—; launch—; localize—; muster for—; outlaw—; plunge into—; prolong—; promote—; provoke—; resort to—; romanticize—; stage—; stave off—; stem—; survive—; taboo; throttle.

Thesaurus
chivalry, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, conflict, contend, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, crusade, cut and thrust, debate, disputation, dispute, drive, duel, endeavor, engage, engage in hostilities, enmity, essay, exchange blows, expedition, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fighting, generalship, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, holy war, hostilities, hostility, hot war, jihad, jostle, joust, knighthood, la guerre, litigation, logomachy, make war, might of arms, military operations, mix it up, open hostilities, open war, oppugn, paper war, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rassle, resort to arms, riot, run a tilt, scramble, scrapping, scuffle, shed blood, shooting war, skirmish, spar, spill blood, squabbling, state of war, strife, strive, struggle, take on, the sword, thrust and parry, tilt, total war, tourney, tug, tussle, wage war, war of words, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime, words, wrangling, wrestle, American Revolution, Ares, Athena, Balkan Wars, Bellona, Boer War, Civil War, Crimean War, Crusades, Enyo, Franco-Prussian War, French Revolution, Gallic Wars, Greco-Persian Wars, Indian Wars, Indochina War, Kilkenny cats, Korean War, Mars, Mexican War, Minerva, Napoleonic Wars, Odin, Peloponnesian Wars, Persian Wars, Punic Wars, Russian Revolution, Russo-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War, Six Day War, Southeast Asian War, Tiu, Tyr, Vietnam War, Woden, World War I, Wotan, all-out war, altercation, appeal to arms, argument, armed combat, armed conflict, arms, art of war, attack, attempt, battle, belligerence, belligerency, bickering, bloodshed, box, brawl, broil, campaign, carry on hostilities, cat-and-dog life, challenge,

Alternative forms

 * warre

Etymology
From werre:, from Late  werre: "armed conflict" from  werre: (compare  guerre:), of  origin, from  *undefined: "confusion, strife" from  from. Akin to werra "confusion, strife, quarrel" ( verwirren "to confuse"),  werran "to confuse, perplex" ( war "confusion, disarray"),  wyrsa: "worse",  verri: "worse" (originally "confounded, mixed up"). Compare versus:, past participle of vertere:. More at,.

Derived terms
all's fair in love and war; anti-war; civil war; cold war; conventional war; declaration of war; dynastic war; edit war; flame war; gas war; go to war; holy war; hot war; inter-war; laws of war; man of war, man-of-war, man-o-war, man-o'-war; man-o'-war suit; nuclear war; perpetual war; pissing war; Portuguese man-of-war; post-war; pre-war; price war; prisoner of war, P.O.W., POW, P.W., PW; pro-war; proxy war; revert war; ship of war; spoils of war; state of war; theater of war, theatre of war; thumb war; total war; trade war; tug of war; turf war; undeclared war; war-; war between the sexes; war bond; war bonnet; war bride; War Cabinet; war chalk; war chest; war child; war crime; war criminal; war cry; war dance; war-dial; war-drive; warfare; war game, wargame; war groom; war hammer; warhead; war hound; warlord; war machine; warmonger; war of nerves; war of words; war paint or warpaint; war party; warpath; war reparations; war-ridden; warring; warrior; war room; war story; wartime; war to end all wars; war torn, war-torn; war veteran; war whoop; war widow; war zone; world war; World War One; World War Two

Antonyms

 * peace

Noun

 * Alabama: ittilbachoba
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ጦርነት (torinet)
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: müharibə, hərb
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: brezel
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: guerra
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chiricahua: dishbá (I start off to war)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: válka, vojna (archaic, arms),  (fight)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ომი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: ñorairõ
 * Hebrew: מלחמה
 * Hindi: युद्ध, जंग
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: milito
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: guerra, bello
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 戦争, 戦
 * Jèrriais: dgèrre
 * Khmer: ចំបាំង, សង្គ្រាម
 * Korean: 전쟁 (戰爭)
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Lao: ສົງຄາມ
 * Lao: ສົງຄາມ


 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: karš (sometimes kaŗš), cīņas
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Krich
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: perang, peperangan
 * Maltese: gwerra
 * Marathi: युद्ध
 * Nahuatl: yaoyotl
 * Navajo:
 * Northern Sami: soahti
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Pashto: (jang)
 * Persian: جنگ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: război, răzbel
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cogadh
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: рат
 * Roman: rat
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindhi: (jangi)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: gera, gyera, digmaan
 * Tamil: போர்
 * Thai: สงคราม
 * Tupinambá: marana
 * Turkish: savaş, muharebe, harp , cenk
 * Ukrainian: війна
 * Urdu: یدھ, جنگ
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: rhyfel
 * West Frisian: oarloch, kriich
 * Yiddish: מלחמה, קריג
 * West Frisian: oarloch, kriich
 * Yiddish: מלחמה, קריג


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: hadjárat
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:, , bój
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:

Verb

 * Bulgarian: започвам война, воювам, водя война
 * Catalan: guerrejar
 * Finnish:
 * Latin: bellum
 * Macedonian: војува, завојува


 * Polish:, wojnę
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: çelişmek, çatışmak

Anagrams

 * raw
 * Rwa, RWA

Preposition

 * 1) on, over, ...
 * war ar sizhun – during the week

Noun

 * 1) tangle, mess
 * 2) confusion, disarray
 * 3) a kind of contraption for luring and catching fish (e.g. by tangling them up in nets)

Derived terms

 * in de war brengen
 * verwarren
 * ontwarren
 * warrig
 * warhoofd
 * warboel

Verb
war


 * 1) * 1788: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont
 * Ich hätte ihn heiraten können, und glaube, ich war nie in ihn verliebt.
 * I could have married him; yet I believe I was never really in love with him.
 * 1) * 1788: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont
 * Gott tröst' ihn! Das war ein Herr!
 * God bless him! He was a king indeed!
 * Gott tröst' ihn! Das war ein Herr!
 * God bless him! He was a king indeed!

Noun

 * 1) place

Adjective

 * 1) true

Adjective
wār


 * 1) true

Noun

 * 1) water