- war
- In.
1) to conduct, fight, wage war against, with
2) to make war
3) to declare war on; to go to war over
4) to escalate, step up a war
5) to lose; win a war
6) to ban, outlaw war
7) to end a war
8) an all-out, full-scale, total; global, world war
9) a civil; cold; defensive; holy; hot, shooting; limited, local; offensive; revolutionary; world war
10) an atomic, nuclear, thermonuclear; conventional war; star wars
11) a gang; price war
12) a war of aggression; attrition; extermination; nerves
13) a war breaks out; rages; spreads (the war spread to the Balkans)
14) an act of war
15) a war against; between (a war against an aggressor; a war between former allies)
16) at war with (to be at war with one's neighbors)
17) (misc.) a theater of war; a state of war (to be in a state of war with a country)
IIv.1) (d; intr.) to war against, with (to war with one's neighbors)
2) (d; intr.) to war over (to war over disputed territory)
* * *[wɔː]conventional warfullscaleglobalholylocalnuclearoutlaw warprice warragesrevolutionaryshootingstar warsstep up a warthermonuclearto go to war overwage war againstwin a warwin a warworld: warbetween (a war against an aggressor; a war between former allies)spreads (the war spread to the Balkans)a state of war (to be in a state of war with a country)with (to war with one's neighbors)(d; intr.) to war against(misc.) a theater of wara civila ganga war againsta war breaks outa war of aggressionan act of waran all-outan atomicto banto conductto declare war onto end a warto escalateto loseto make warat war with (to be at war with one's neighbors)(d; intr.) to war over (to war over disputed territory)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
