Synonym: battle, campaign, clash, combat, conflict, encounter, engagement, fight, strife, struggle. Antonym: peace. Similar words: warn, at war, award, warmth, warm up, toward, post-war, warning. Meaning: [wɔr /wɔː] n. 1. the waging of armed conflict against an enemy 2. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply 3. an active struggle between competing entities 4. a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious. v. make or wage war.
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(151) The minister gave a warning that if war broke out, it would be catastrophic.
(152) Gathered all together in this church, we commemorate those who lost their lives in the great war.
(153) The country bestowed its highest medal on the war hero.
(154) The war between the two countries has been declared on.
(155) A poet's work may be potentiated by his experience of war and of suffering.
(156) In October 1962 the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war.
(157) After the First World War Germany conceded a lot of land to her neighbours.
(158) The ceremony was attended by many of the surviving veterans of World War II.
(159) The world lives at daggers drawn in a cold war.
(160) Conditions after the war led to the emergence of a new type of political party.
(161) The sick and wounded were evacuated from the war zone.
(162) Many foreigners were interned for the duration of the war.
(163) The work of the intelligence services was crucially important to victory in the war.
(164) Tolstoy's experiences of war had a profound effect on his work.
(165) The President had a clear mandate to end the war.
(166) The old man recalled the city as it had been before the war.
(167) Now that the war is over may there be a lasting peace between our nations.
(168) The general had served as a soldier in the earlier war.
(169) It was this spirit that pulled us through the darkest moments of the war.
(170) After the Second World War the franchise was extended to all adults over eighteen.
(171) During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
(172) Among the protesters and war veterans proudly displaying their medals was Aubrey Rose.
(173) The government does not want to go to war unless all other alternatives have failed.
(174) The novel began with a flashback to the hero's experiences in the war.
(175) A new method of fuel injection was developed during the war.
(176) General Washington led the insurgent forces in the Revolutionary War.
(177) A war crimes tribunal was set up to prosecute those charged with atrocities.
(178) Only a short campaign took place in Puerto Rico,(http://sentencedict.com/war.html) but after the war Spain ceded the island to America.
(179) The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country.
(180) The country was sliding into a state of virtual civil war.
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