Warfare definitions

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Warfare is engagement in violent conflict, or the activities involved with violent conflict.

Bombing a country you are in a dispute with is an example of warfare.

Pitting one class of people against another, making the poor hate the rich, is an example of class warfare.

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A state of disharmony or conflict; strife.

Constant spousal warfare in the household.

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Acts undertaken to destroy or undermine the strength of another.

Political warfare.

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The waging of war against an enemy; armed conflict.
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Military operations marked by a specific characteristic.

Guerrilla warfare; chemical warfare.

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The action of waging war; armed conflict.
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Conflict or struggle of any kind.
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To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
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Origin of warfare

Middle English warre war war fare journey (from Old English faru) (from faran to journey fare)

Sentence Examples

  • I'm an urban warfare tactics trainer, specializing in tracking.

  • Commercial warfare was to be avoided because of the cost.

  • Despite its superior weapons and mode of warfare, the German east Baltic colony was constantly in danger of being overborne by the endless assaults of the dogged aborigines, whose hatred of the religion of the Cross as preached by the knights is very intelligible; and in 1218 Bishop Albert of Riga was driven to appeal for assistance to King Valdemar.

  • During these two or three years of incessant political intrigue and warfare it was not to be expected that the Lateran council should accomplish much.

  • The warfare which followed was like that which Saul and David waged against the Philistines.

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