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Warred

War \War\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Warred; p. pr. & vb. n. Warring.]

  1. To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.

    Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it.
    --Isa. vii. 1.

    Why should I war without the walls of Troy?
    --Shak.

    Our countrymen were warring on that day!
    --Byron.

  2. To contend; to strive violently; to fight. ``Lusts which war against the soul.''
    --1 Pet. ii. 11.

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warred

vb. (en-pastwar)

WordNet
war
  1. n. the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war" [syn: warfare]

  2. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring" [syn: state of war] [ant: peace]

  3. an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare" [syn: warfare]

  4. a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; "the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"

  5. [also: warring, warred]

warred

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war
  1. v. make or wage war [ant: make peace]

  2. [also: warring, warred]

Usage examples of "warred".

In its first century, Rationalism affirmed the nations as the ultimate units of history and warred against the subjection of the nations to the dynasts.

But Servia warred with Turkey, and her troops were defeated in the great battle at Kossovo, and the Ottoman power became supreme.

These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.

Three Seas, all the Great Factions warred with tangible foes for tangible ends, while the Mandate warred against a foe no one could see for an end no one believed in.

The Thousand Temples, the Scarlet Spires, all the Great Factions warred interminably across the Three Seas.

Dark rollers warred against one another, clashed with unearthly momentum, as though the very Gods warred beneath.

The Nansur Empire, as you well know, has warred against the Fanim since the first Kiani tribesmen rode howling from the deserts.

They left lightened of both silver and seed, but she had convinced herself that they took some part of her with them, that she had expanded somehow, that she, Esmenet, haunted eyes that watched and warred with the world.

When one warred with the intangible, convolutions were certain to abound.