Definition of War

War
(v. t.)
To make war upon; to fight.
  
(v. t.)
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
  
(v. i.)
To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
  
(v. i.)
To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
  
(n.)
The profession of arms; the art of war.
  
(n.)
Instruments of war.
  
(n.)
Forces; army.
  
(n.)
a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
  
(n.)
A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
  
(n.)
A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
  
(a.)
Ware; aware.
  

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Noun
1. the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"
(synonym) warfare
(hypernym) military action, action
(hyponym) limited war
(part-meronym) battle, conflict, fight, engagement
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
(class) de-escalation
2. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"
(synonym) state of war
(antonym) peace
(hypernym) hostility, enmity, antagonism
(hyponym) proxy war
(classification) warfare
3. an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare"
(synonym) warfare
(hypernym) conflict, struggle, battle
(hyponym) drug war
4. a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; "the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"
(hypernym) campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort

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Verb
1. make or wage war
(antonym) make peace
(hypernym) fight, struggle
(hyponym) blitzkrieg
(derivation) state of war

WAR
War, (n.)

A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end -- that change is the one immutable and eternal law -- but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome" -- when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu -- that he

heard from afar
Ancestral voices prophesying war.

One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.
  

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
Origin
From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Flame war
dispute full of caustic and negative abuse conducted over the Internet

Paper war
(adj. phr.) any wearisome attendance to administrative routine

War Sigma Tilda
waltzing Matilda

War paint
women's cosmetics

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war
\war\ (?), a. ware; aware. [obs.]
war
\war\ (?), n. [oe. & as. werre; akin to ohg. werra scandal, quarrel, sedition, werran to confound, mix, d. warren, g. wirren, verwirren, to embroil, confound, disturb, and perhaps to e. worse; cf. of. werre war, f. querre, of teutonic origin. cf. guerrilla, warrior.]
1. a contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities. men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed. w. robertson.
note: as war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. a war begun by attacking another nation, is called an offensive war, and such attack is aggressive. war undertaken to repel invasion, or the attacks of an enemy, is called defensive.
2. (law) a condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. in this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
3. instruments of war. [poetic] his complement of stores, and total war.
4. forces; army. [poetic] on their embattled ranks the waves return, and overwhelm their war.
5. the profession of arms; the art of war. thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth. xvii. 33.
6. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. "raised impious war in heaven." the words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. lv. 21.

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war
cogadh m.; comhrac m.
war against: téidhim chum comhraic le

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WAR
War is a Khasian language spoken in Bangladesh and India.
The language is: War

Batelu
Batelu = v. to draw a bow; to battle, to war, to fight

Bel
Bel = n. tumult; havoc; war

Bela
Bela = n. a wolf; the henbane v. to wrangle; to war

Brwydro
Brwydro = v. to battle, or to fight in war

Cadfarch
Cadfarch = n. a war horse

Cunnellt
Cunnellt = n. weapons of war

Dragon
Dragon = n. leader in war

Lluedda
Lluedda = v. to carry on war

Llueddiad
Llueddiad = n. a waging war

Lluydda
Lluydda = v. to be waging in war

Lluyddiad
Lluyddiad = n. a waging war

Lluyddu
Lluyddu = v. to wage war

Milwrio
Milwrio = v. to carry on war

Rhyfel
Rhyfel = n. war, warfare

Rhyfela
Rhyfela = v. to wage war, to war

Rhyfelu
Rhyfelu = v. to wage war, to war

War
A contention by force; or the art of paralysing the forces of an enemy.

It is either public or private. It is not intended here to speak of the latter.

Public war is either civil or national. Civil war is that which is waged between two parties, citizens or members of the same state or nation. National war is a contest between two or more independent nations) carried on by authority of their respective governments.

War is not only an act, but a state or condition, for nations are said to be at war not only when their armies are engaged, so as to be in the very act of contention, but also when, they have any matter of controversy or dispute subsisting between them which they are determined to decide by the use of force, and have declared publicly, or by their acts, their determination so to decide it.

National wars are said to be offensive or defensive. War is offensive on the part of that government which commits the first act of violence; it is defensive on the part of that government which receives such act; but it is very difficult to say what is the first act of violence. If a nation sees itself menaced with an attack, its first act of violence to prevent such attack, will be considered as defensive.

To legalize a war it must be declared by that branch of the government entrusted by the Constitution with this power. And it seems it need not be declared by both the belligerent powers. By the Constitution of the United States, Art. I, Congress is invested with power "to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; and they have also the power to raise and support armies, and to provide and maintain a navy."
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

War
To dream of war, foretells unfortunate conditions in business, and much disorder and strife in domestic affairs.

For a young woman to dream that her lover goes to war, denotes that she will hear of something detrimental to her lover's character.

To dream that your country is defeated in war, is a sign that it will suffer revolution of a business and political nature. Personal interest will sustain a blow either way.

If of victory you dream, there will be brisk activity along business lines, and domesticity will be harmonious.
  

Atomosophobia
Fear of atomic explosions

Ballistophobia
Fear of missles or bullets

Vara
Vara (Avestan) War (Pahlavi) Baru (Persian) An enclosure, vehicle; the ark or argha of the Avesta. In the Vendidad, after Yima enlarged the earth three times, he assembled the excellent mortals and gods. Yima was instructed to make a vara two miles long on every side, and to bring there the seeds of sheep, animals, men, fires, and plants: "Thither thou shalt bring the seeds of every kind of tree, of the greatest, best, and finest kinds on this earth; thither thou shalt bring the seeds of every kind of fruit, the fullest of food and sweetest of odour. All those seeds shalt thou bring, two of every kind, to be kept inexhaustible there, so long as those men shall stay in the Vara" (Farg. 2:28).
The similarity of this allegory to Hebrew and certain Hindu writings is obvious, and from the standpoint of humanity on earth, "Those 'men' in the 'Vara' are the 'Progenitors,' the heavenly men or Dhyani, the future Egos who are commissioned to inform mankind. For 'Vara,' or the 'Ark' (or again the Vehicle) simply means man. . . .
". . . Vara meant the man of the Fourth Round, as much as the Earth of those days, the moon, and even Noah's ark, if one will so have it . . ." (SD 2:291-2). See also KARSHIPTA 

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Vara (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root vri to choose] Superior, choice, excellent.

War
The Israelites had to take possession of the Promised Land by conquest. They had to engage in a long and bloody war before the Canaanitish tribes were finally subdued. Except in the case of Jericho and Ai, the war did not become aggressive till after the death of Joshua. Till then the attack was always first made by the Canaanites. Now the measure of the iniquity of the Canaanites was full, and Israel was employed by God to sweep them away from off the face of the earth. In entering on this new stage of the war, the tribe of Judah, according to divine direction, took the lead. In the days of Saul and David the people of Israel engaged in many wars with the nations around, and after the division of the kingdom into two they often warred with each other. They had to defend themselves also against the inroads of the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and the Babylonians. The whole history of Israel from first to last presents but few periods of peace. The Christian life is represented as a warfare, and the Christian graces are also represented under the figure of pieces of armour (Eph. 6:11-17; 1 Thess. 5:8; 2 Tim. 2:3, 4). The final blessedness of believers is attained as the fruit of victory (Rev. 3:21).

War

The most important topic in connection with war is the formation of the army which is destined to carry it on. See: Army In (1 Kings 9:22) at a period (Solomon's reign) when the organization of the army was complete, we have apparently a list of the various gradations of rank in the service, as follows:
→ "Men of war" = privates ;
→ "servants," the lowest rank of officers-lieutenants ;
→ "princes" = captains ;
→ "captains," perhaps = staff officers ;
→ "rulers of the chariots and his horsemen" = cavalry officers . Formal proclamations of war were not interchanged between the belligerents. Before entering the enemy's district spies were seat to ascertain the character of the country and the preparations of its inhabitants for resistance. (Numbers 13:17; Joshua 2:1; Judges 7:10; 1 Samuel 26:4) The combat assumed the form of a number of hand-to-hand contests; hence the high value attached to fleetness of foot and strength of arm. (2 Samuel 1:23; 2:18; 1 Chronicles 12:8) At the same time various strategic devices were practiced, such as the ambuscade, (Joshua 8:2,12; Judges 20:36) surprise, (Judges 7:16) or circumvention. (2 Samuel 5:23) Another mode of settling the dispute was by the selection of champions, (1 Samuel 17; 2 Samuel 2:14) who were spurred on to exertion by the offer of high reward. (1 Samuel 17:25; 18:25; 2 Samuel 18:11; 1 Chronicles 11:6) The contest having been decided, the conquerors were recalled from the pursuit by the sound of a trumpet. (2 Samuel 2:28; 18:16; 20:22) The siege of a town or fortress was conducted in the following manner: A line of circumvallation was drawn round the place, (Ezekiel 4:2; Micah 5:1) constructed out of the trees found in the neighborhood, (20:20) together with earth and any other materials at hand. This line not only cut off the besieged from the surrounding country, but also served as a base of operations for the besiegers. The next step was to throw out from this line one or more mounds or "banks" in the direction of the city, (2 Samuel 20:15; 2 Kings 19:32; Isaiah 37:33) which were gradually increased in height until they were about half as high as the city wall. On this mound or bank towers were erected, (2 Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 52:4; Ezekiel 4:2; 17:17; 21:22; 26:8) whence the slingers and archers might attack with effect. Catapults were prepared for hurling large darts and stones; and the crow, a long spar, with iron claws at one end and ropes at the other, to pull down stones or men from the top of the wall. Battering-rams, (Ezekiel 4:2; 21:22) were brought up to the walls by means of the bank, and scaling-ladders might also be placed on it. The treatment of the conquered was extremely severe in ancient times. The bodies of the soldiers killed in action were plundered, (1 Samuel 31:8) 2 Macc 8:27; the survivors were either killed in some savage manner, (Judges 9:45; 2 Samuel 12:31; 2 Chronicles 25:12) mutilated, (Judges 9:45; 2 Samuel 12:31; 2 Chronicles 25:12) mutilated, (Judges 1:6; 1 Samuel 11:2) or carried into captivity. (Numbers 31:26)
  

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war
adj 1. aware; 2. prudent

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wage war
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