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Late Old English wyrre, from Old Northern French werre ( = Old French guerre), from Frankish werra, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werza- (“‘mixture, confusion’”).

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Singular
war

Plural
wars

war (plural wars)

  1. A conflict involving the organized use of arms and physical force between countries or other large-scale armed groups. The warring parties hold territory, which they can win or lose; and each has a leading person or organization which can surrender, or collapse, thus ending the war.
  2. (rhetorical) A campaign against something. E.g., the war on drugs is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs; the war on terror is a campaign against terrorist crime.
  3. (by analogy, uncountable) A particular card game for two players.

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Terms derived from "war"

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war

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Infinitive
to war

Third person singular
wars

Simple past
warred

Past participle
warred

Present participle
warring

to war (third-person singular simple present wars, present participle warring, simple past and past participle warred)

  1. To engage in conflict with a foe.
    His emotions war with his intellect, making him conflicted.

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war

  1. on

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war c. (plural warren)

  1. a kind of contraption for luring and catching fish (e.g. by tangling them up in nets)
  2. confusion, disarray

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war

  1. past of sein, was

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war

  1. place

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wār

  1. true

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war

  1. water
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