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All war synonyms

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noun war

  • conflict β€” Conflict is serious disagreement and argument about something important. If two people or groups are in conflict, they have had a serious disagreement or argument and have not yet reached agreement.
  • combat β€” Combat is fighting that takes place in a war.
  • warfare β€” the process of military struggle between two nations or groups of nations; war.
  • fighting β€” fit to fight: a boxer who's no longer in fighting shape.
  • confrontation β€” A confrontation is a dispute, fight, or battle between two groups of people.
  • hostilities β€” a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
  • battle β€” A battle is a violent fight between groups of people, especially one between military forces during a war.
  • bloodshed β€” Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
  • hostility β€” a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
  • strife β€” vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
  • strike β€” to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • struggle β€” to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
  • contention β€” Someone's contention is the idea or opinion that they are expressing in an argument or discussion.
  • contest β€” A contest is a competition or game in which people try to win.
  • enmity β€” The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
  • cold war β€” The Cold War was the period of hostility and tension between the Soviet bloc and the Western powers that followed the Second World War.
  • police action β€” a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.
  • campaign β€” A campaign is a planned set of activities that people carry out over a period of time in order to achieve something such as social or political change.
  • crusade β€” A crusade is a long and determined attempt to achieve something for a cause that you feel strongly about.
  • competition β€” Competition is a situation in which two or more people or groups are trying to get something which not everyone can have.
  • rivalry β€” the action, position, or relation of a rival or rivals; competition: rivalry between Yale and Harvard.
  • feud β€” fee (def 4).

verb war

  • fight β€” a battle or combat.
  • differ β€” to be unlike, dissimilar, or distinct in nature or qualities (often followed by from): The two writers differ greatly in their perceptions of the world. Each writer's style differs from that of another.
  • take up arms β€” Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
  • attack β€” To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
  • attempt β€” If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.
  • bombard β€” If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
  • challenge β€” A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
  • clash β€” When people clash, they fight, argue, or disagree with each other.
  • contend β€” If you have to contend with a problem or difficulty, you have to deal with it or overcome it.
  • disagree β€” to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
  • endeavour β€” Standard spelling of endeavor.
  • endeavor β€” Try hard to do or achieve something.
  • kill β€” to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
  • meet β€” greatest lower bound
  • murder β€” Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
  • oppugn β€” to assail by criticism, argument, or action.
  • shell β€” a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
  • shoot β€” to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
  • strive β€” to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
  • tug β€” to pull at with force, vigor, or effort.
  • take on β€” to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.

adjective war

  • warlike β€” fit, qualified, or ready for war; martial: a warlike fleet; warlike tribes.
  • gladiatorial β€” of or relating to gladiators or to their combats.
  • dissentious β€” contentious; quarrelsome.
  • quarrelsome β€” inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
  • cat-and-dog β€” continuously or unceasingly vicious and destructive: cat-and-dog competition.
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