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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