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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
warring
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
warring factions
▪ the leaders of the warring factions
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
faction
▪ Thus the Labour Party became a battleground for its own warring factions.
▪ Steps are now being taken to get both warring factions around the negotiating table.
▪ The change began with the anguished division of the old Solidarity opposition into warring factions last year.
▪ Already they've been the target of attacks from warring factions.
▪ Indeed, he hoped they would provide the basis of a religion that could unite the warring factions of the Church.
▪ Envoys for peace are trying to bring warring factions together, and individuals and organisations are battling to feed the hungry.
▪ The statement followed assurances from country's warring factions that they would no longer block aid convoys or distribution.
▪ Best of all, the warring factions of the committee somehow came together on the night.
party
▪ Mrs Ogata suspended the aid on grounds the warring parties were playing politics with people's lives.
▪ Macmillan became prime minister with the job of healing a divided and warring party.
▪ Consider a country that has no commercial or other relations with either of two warring parties.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All attempts to reconcile the two warring groups have failed.
▪ Fighting between the various warring factions was destroying the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Already they've been the target of attacks from warring factions.
▪ Between warring kings, a peacemaker; between adoring spouses, a seducer, or a child.
▪ I think I called a warring, but Ward ignored it.
▪ Mrs Ogata suspended the aid on grounds the warring parties were playing politics with people's lives.
▪ The warring sides finally came face-to-face at a meeting designed to help them settle their differences.
▪ The change began with the anguished division of the old Solidarity opposition into warring factions last year.
▪ The court has now told the warring couple to each keep half the ashes until they can agree on a resting place.
▪ Thus the Labour Party became a battleground for its own warring factions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warring

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.

Wiktionary
warring

a. engaged in war; belligerent n. The act of engaging in war or conflict.

WordNet
warring

See war

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]

warring

adj. engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war" [syn: belligerent, fighting, militant, war-ridden]

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

  2. [also: warring, warred]

Wikipedia
Warring (surname)

Warring is a surname, and may refer to:

  • James Warring (born 1958), American boxer
  • Lynne Warring (born 1963), New Zealand footballer
Warring (disambiguation)

To be warring is to be engaged in organized violent conflict with one or more other belligerent groups or nations.

Warring may also refer to:

  • Warring (surname), a surname
  • Warring Kennedy (1827-1904), Irish-Canadian politician

Usage examples of "warring".

For my part, I shall take all immaginable care that the Fathers who preach the Holy Gospell to those Indians over whom I have power bee not in the least ill treated, and upon that very accompt have sent for one of each nation to come to me, and then those beastly crimes you reproove shall be checked severely, and all my endevours used to surpress their filthy drunkennesse, disorders, debauches, warring, and quarrels, and whatsoever doth obstruct the growth and enlargement of the Christian faith amongst those people.

Ensign Gage burst into the room, her expression warring between annoyance and chagrin.

Kaiser William used to knock down the castles of the baron robbers has been approximated by his warring tribes.

Achaeans, the dead Amazons, the dead horses, and the distant walls of Ilium and warring armies just visible through the now vibrating Brane Hole.

We should, while endeavoring to uphold loyally and expound conscientiously our social and moral principles in all their essence and purity, in all their bearings upon the divers phases of human society, insure that no direct reference or particular criticism in our exposition of the fundamentals of the Faith would tend to antagonize any existing institution, or help to identify a purely spiritual movement with the base clamorings and contentions of warring sects, factions and nations.

Too many warring shades of light and darkness overlapped the dark harbor water, turning it alternately into a bright, reflective surface or into a dark and depthless one.

In this case the hegemony means the overlordship of all the warring states that now make up the Middle Kingdom.

They left the studio and settled on a sort of divan before a long low window in one of her front rooms, and sat looking out at a sunset of stunning photochemical complexity, an astounding apocalyptic Wagnerian thing: enormous bold jagged streaks of scarlet and gold and green and violet and turquoise warring frantically with each other for possession of the sky above San Francisco.

With Strongblade gone warring, she would naturally reassume the authority she had been forced to yield at his coronation.

I went on sinning every hour, and all the while most strenuously warring against sin, and repenting of every one transgression as soon after the commission of it as I got leisure to think.

They planned this, when it really was so easy to wipe out yellow fever simply by warring on the Stegomyia, which does not breed in secret places, which is a very domestic mosquito!

Out of that agony, misread for those Imprisoned Powers warring unappeased, The ghost of his black adversary rose, To smother light, shut heaven, show earth diseased.

Egwene bounced to her feet, her desire to be dignified obviously warring with her desire to avoid a confrontation with the Wisdom over her unbraided hair.

Perhaps she brings us something that Alexandrine found was too dangerous to take across the Flemish border, with armies warring there.

Marcomanni had been warring with the Boii for centuries, and the Tigurini with the Helvetii.