Definitions for War

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Spelling: [wawr]

IPA: /wɔr/

War is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in War (arw).

Definitions for War

noun

1. a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
2. a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations:
3. a contest carried on by force of arms, as in a series of battles or campaigns:
4. armed fighting, as a science, profession, activity, or art; methods or principles of waging armed conflict:
5. active hostility or contention; conflict; contest:
6. aggressive business conflict, as through severe price cutting in the same industry or any other means of undermining competitors:
7. a struggle to achieve a goal:
8. Cards. a game for two or more persons, played with a 52-card pack evenly divided between the players, in which each player turns up one card at a time with the higher card taking the lower, and in which, when both turned up cards match, each player lays one card face down and turns up another, the player with the higher card of the second turn taking all the cards laid down. an occasion in this game when both turned up cards match.
9. Archaic. a battle.

adjective

1. of, belonging to, used in, or due to war:

adjective, adverb

1. worse.

verb (used without object)

1. to make or carry on war; fight:
2. to carry on active hostility or contention:
3. to be in conflict or in a state of strong opposition:

Origin of War

before 1150; (noun) Middle English, late Old English werre Old North French Germanic; cognate with Old High German werra strife; (v.) Middle English, late Old English werrien (transitive) to

Examples for War

The following are a few of the passes used by Harriet throughout the war.

Pentagon leaders agree to a person that the U.S. war against ISIS is succeeding.

Division on public questions can no longer be traced by the war maps of 1861.

Halbert privately came to the same conclusion, and decided to war only with words.

As for the war between the Philistines and the Jews, it never came to an end.

But this war jumps from city to city, depending the threat of the day.

It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition.

I did all that in honor could be done to avert the war, but without avail.

In this war, the targeting is often happening on computer monitors thousands of miles away, capturing images from drones.

Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."