All warfare synonyms
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- fighting — fit to fight: a boxer who's no longer in fighting shape.
- conflict — 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 — Combat is fighting that takes place in a war.
- war — a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
- battle — A battle is a violent fight between groups of people, especially one between military forces during a war.
- campaigning — Military. military operations for a specific objective. Obsolete. the military operations of an army in the field for one season.
- clash — When people clash, they fight, argue, or disagree with each other.
- competition — Competition is a situation in which two or more people or groups are trying to get something which not everyone can have.
- discord — lack of concord or harmony between persons or things: marital discord.
- rivalry — the action, position, or relation of a rival or rivals; competition: rivalry between Yale and Harvard.
- strife — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- struggle — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- arms — weapons collectively
- contest — A contest is a competition or game in which people try to win.
- counterinsurgency — action taken by a government to counter the activities of rebels, guerrillas, etc
- emulation — The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
- hostilities — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- striving — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- tug-of-war — an athletic contest between two teams at opposite ends of a rope, each team trying to drag the other over a line.
- feud — fee (def 4).