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Late Old English werre, wyrre, from Northern Old French werre ( = Old French guerre), of Germanic origin (unattested Frankish *werra), from Proto-Germanic *werso (mixture, mix-up, confusion), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werza- (mixture, confusion). Akin to Old High German werra "confusion, strife, quarrel", Old English wyrsa, wiersa & Old Norse verri "worse" (originally "confounded, mixed up")

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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.
  1. By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
  1. (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.
  2. (by analogy, uncountable) A particular card game for two players.

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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, over, ...
    war ar sizhun – during the week

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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. first person singular past tense of sein. (I was)
    • 1788: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont
      Ich hätte ihn heiraten können, und glaube, ich war nie in ihn verliebt.
      I could have married him; yet I believe I was never really in love with him.
  2. third person singular past tense of sein. (she was)
    • 1788: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont
      Gott tröst' ihn! Das war ein Herr!
      God bless him! He was a king indeed!

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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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