warring
交战,战斗,战乱,交战的
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Definitions
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- : a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
- : a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations: The two nations were at war with each other.
- : a contest carried on by force of arms, as in a series of battles or campaigns: the War of 1812.
- : armed fighting, as a science, profession, activity, or art; methods or principles of waging armed conflict: War is the soldier's business.
- : active hostility or contention; conflict; contest: a war of words.
- : aggressive business conflict, as through severe price cutting in the same industry or any other means of undermining competitors: a fare war among airlines; a trade war between nations.
- : a struggle to achieve a goal: the war on cancer;a war against poverty;a war for hearts and minds.
- : Cards. a game for two or more persons, played with a 52-card pack evenly divided between the players, in which each player turns up one card at a time with the higher card taking the lower, and in which, when both turned up cards match, each player lays one card face down and turns up another, the player with the higher card of the second turn taking all the cards laid down.an occasion in this game when both turned up cards match.
- : Archaic. a battle.
Phrases
- ward off
- war horse
- war of nerves
- all's fair in love and war
- at war
- been to the wars
- declare war
- tug of war
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
She reported on wars and revolutions around the globe, published dozens of elegant books exploring far-flung places and times and was regarded as perhaps the greatest travel writer of her time.
John Glenn, the third American to fly in space, veteran of two wars, former senator, is certainly a fine, honorable choice for such a biography.
Residents have claimed the abundance of helicopters is a source of nightmares and compared living beneath rotors to living in a war zone.
Tope Awotona didn’t intend to get his startup off the ground in the middle of a war zone.
Apple therefore banned the game and the two sides are now at war in federal court in California.
For peace to have a chance, the calculations of the warring parties must change as well.
The warring courts that left two men in legal limbo and ultimately resolved nothing?
Today, he is sick of Syria talk, and asserts that all warring sides are guilty of perpetuating the violence.
The “warring nations,” which continued to be at odds, and might always be, did not forge modern Canada that way.
If this trio smiles twice, it will be once more than the dour, warring panel from last season did.
It burst upon them ere long with awful fury and grandeur, the elements warring with incredible vehemence.
Even if left to its own devices it would speedily become disrupted by the warring elements within its bounds.