Meaning of war machine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An individual weapon for war, especially a mechanical one such as a siege engine or tank.
2. The military resources of a belligerent country considered as a whole.

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Examples

“And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; […]”

“Kobe was a shambles; the slaughter of the cotton operatives by machine-guns became classic as the most terrific execution ever achieved by modern war machines.”

“The German war machine was more powerful than that of the allies at the start⟳ of the war.”

“The Covenant war machine continues its march⟳ to conquest; even with its head severed it is still dangerous.”

“[…] instead of dismantling the surveillance state and war machine, the Obama administration and Democrats institutionalised it – and it will soon be in the hands of a maniac.”

“From the one million civilians killed in the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–89) to the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who’ve perished at the receiving end⟳ of Russia’s and Assad’s war machine, the chain of impunity is long.”

“Go, Rihanna, go / Watch⟳ the fighter jet fly⟳ high / War machine gets glamorized”

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