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warfare
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Word definitions for warfare in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warfare \War"fare`\, n. [War + OE. fare a journey, a passage, course, AS. faru. See Fare , n.] Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The wage of war or armed conflict against an enemy. 2 military operations of some particular kind e.g. guerrilla warfare. vb. To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from war (n.) + fare (see fare (n.)).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES chemical warfare (= the use of chemical weapons in wars ) ▪ There is now also the threat of chemical warfare. chemical warfare gang warfare (= fighting between gangs ) ▪ Gang warfare is wrecking the neighborhood. germ ...
Usage examples of warfare.
They were reported to be aggressively engaged in guerilla warfare against the enemy in the provinces of Shantung, Hopei, Shansi and north Kiangsu, although direct evidence was lacking because no foreigner accredited to Chungking was allowed to visit the area north of the quarantine line.
The one certain fact in the situation was the accumulated disinclination of the Russian people for any further warfare.
During World War II, the United States, fearful that Japan and Germany were making bioweapons, first began experimenting with anthrax and other germ warfare.
There was a sofa in the room, but it was horsehair, with high ends both alike, not comfortable, which were covered with curious complications called antimacassars, that slipped off directly they were touched, so that anybody who leaned upon them was engaged continually in warfare with them, picking them up from the floor or spreading them out again.
If disease, however, was loosed artificially - we have previously mentioned the possibility of bacteriological warfare - then it is possible either that this form of warfare was geographically limited, or that some populations were able to prepare forms of defence against it.
Below the ribbons Ericcson wore his surface warfare pin, and below that his fleet command gold emblem, a downward angling dagger framed by tidal waves.
Which explained why naval warfare had been one long, weary attritional contest for so long.
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Iraq has retained ballistic missiles, as well as chemical and biological warfare munitions.
Defense and Research Development Organization concluded they could only have been intended for chemical warfare and ballistic missile production.
Ossory spits in the teeth of the rules Brian Boru laid down for warfare.
Island -- The Character of his Warfare -- Of his Men -- Anecdotes of Conyers and Horry -- He feasts a British Officer on Potatoes -- Quells a Mutiny.
Any effort to connect old Amos Marle with warfare would have been very feeble indeed.
Against all conventions of modern warfare he has resorted to LMW, linguistic and metalogical warfare.
The orgulous monarch turns to mellow speech When warfare helps him not.