Meaning of war | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of White Aryan Resistance.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. Initialism of write after read, a kind of data hazard.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
3. Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
   uncountable
4. Preceded by the: designating a particularly notable war.
   obsolete
5. World War I.
   obsolete
6. Initialism of Web Application aRchive (a Java archive file).
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
7. Acronym of wins above replacement.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
8. A particular conflict of this kind.
   countable
9. World War II.
   British, informal
10. In an active state of conflict or contention.
11. Initialism of Winchester Automatic Rifle.
    abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
12. Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
    countable, proscribed, sometimes
13. The personification of war, often depicted in armour and riding a red horse; the red rider.
14. worse.
15. Initialism of Women Against Registry.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
16. Any protracted conflict, particularly
    broadly, countable
17. A city in West Virginia, United States.
18. the right of a nation at war to destroy the property of a neutral, subject to indemnification.
19. A sustained campaign against a social problem, idea, set of values, etc.
    US, broadly, countable, uncountable
20. the techniques, policies, and training of special police who deal with terrorists, especially those who take hostages. — antiterrorist, adj.
21. A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
22. a temporary cessation of hostilities, by agreement between the belligerents, prior to the negotiation or signing of a peace treaty.
23. A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
24. the advocacy of war. Cf. pacifism. — bellicist, n.
25. An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
    Internet, broadly, countable, uncountable
26. the state of being hostile or at war. — belligerent, n., adj.
27. An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
    obsolete, uncountable
28. any expression of sympathy for the Confederate cause in the American Civil War. — copperhead, n.
29. Armed forces.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
30. the process of demilitarization or removal of military activity or control from an area.
31. Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
    uncountable
32. the process of being demobilized or mustered out of the military.

Equivalents

Examples

“holy war; just war; civil war”

“Come on, let vs deale wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to passe that when there falleth out any warre, they ioyne also vnto our enemies, and fight against vs, and so get them vp out of the land.”

“And when yee shall heare of warres, and rumors of warres, be yee not troubled: For such things must needs be, but the end shall not be yet.”

“War is indeed a fearful thing and the more I see it the more dreadful it appears.”

“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out... You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.”

“I've been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It's entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is hell!”

“Here Lee and Longstreet stood during most of the fighting [at Fredericksburg], and it is told that, on one of the Federal repulses from Marye's Hill, Lee put his hand upon Longstreet's arm and said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it."”

“Nobody can deny that war is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.”

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.”

“War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual.”

“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.”

“From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”

“War, huh, Good God, y'all! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing...”

“War. War never changes. The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower. But war never changes.”

“Edward Wilson, the inventor of the field of sociobiology, once wrote that "war is embedded in our very nature". This is a belief commonly held not just by sociobiologists but also by anthropologists and other students of human behaviour. They base it not only on the propensity of modern man to go to war with his neighbours (and, indeed, with people halfway around the world, given the chance) but also on observations of the way those who still live a pre-agricultural "hunter-gatherer" life behave... Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine... One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries... Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.”

“China and the United States are closer than they’ve ever been to a war over Taiwan.”

“All human tribes glad token see In the close of the wars of Grant and Lee.”

“A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war.”

“a war of succession... a war of attrition... the Cold War... World War III...”

“Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.”

“...These wars are not going away. This is at least a generational struggle.”

“the Great Emu War... the Global War on Terrorism...”

“the War on Poverty... the War on Drugs... the War on Christmas...”

“The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party... Ask all our millions, north and south, whether they would vote now (were such a thing possible) to have our war for the Union expunged from history... and probably hardly a handful of eccentrics would say yes. Those ancestors, those efforts, those memories and legends, ar the most ideal part of what we now own together, a sacred spiritual possession worth more than all the blood poured out. Yet ask those same people whether they would be willing, in cold blood, to start another civil war now to gain another similar possession, and not one man or woman would vote for the proposition.”

“price wars... Cola Wars... format wars...”

“turf war... gang war... Castellammarese War...”

“flame war... edit war...”

“The God of Love himſelf inhabits there, With all his rage, and dread, and grief, and care, His complement of ſtores, and total war...”

“On thir imbattelld ranks the Waves return, And overwhelm thir Warr”

“We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.”

“Through much of the War, Hitler carried his painter's kit, did water colors of War-ruined buildings.”

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