Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The waging of war against an enemy; armed conflict.
- noun Military operations marked by a specific characteristic.
- noun A state of disharmony or conflict; strife.
- noun Acts undertaken to destroy or undermine the strength of another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To carry on warfare or engage in war; contend; struggle.
- noun A warlike or military expedition; military operations; hostilities; war; armed contest.
- noun Figuratively, any contest, struggle, or strife.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
- noun Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
- noun Contest; struggle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
waging ofwar orarmed conflict against anenemy - noun
Military operations of someparticular kind e.g.guerrilla warfare - verb To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an active struggle between competing entities
- noun the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Their business model isn't based on marketing warfare, it's based on _total _warfare -- and it's not based on cutthroat capitalism, it's based on cutthroat _criminalism_.
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The hardest thing in warfare is to counter someone or a group of individuals who are willing to take their own lives in order to take others.
McCain: Al Qaeda Might Try To Tip Election - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com 2008
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The circumstance that the uranium the Americans use in warfare is depleted just underscores their general decency.
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The Nylon Model 66 proved the new 5.56 rifle had a place in warfare is what I understood, interesting.
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Not everyone knows it, but a very great deal of what happens in warfare is simple trickery.
Further into OH Man's Land...and giant cowboys deep_bluze 2005
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We're all collections of internal warring factions, no doubt -- but for the protagonists of our scandals, the warfare is apparently far bloodier.
Why is Eliot Spitzer on TV? Because disgrace doesn't stick like it used to. Laura Kipnis 2010
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It kinda works if you stick with the traditional definition: “Guerrilla warfare is the irregular warfare and combat in which a small group of combatants use mobile military tactics in the form of ambushes and raids to combat a larger and less mobile formal army.”
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As soldiers, exposed to hardship and in the midst of enemies; we must serve and be under command; and, when our warfare is accomplished, we must be disbanded, dismissed with either shame or honour, according to what we have done in the body.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Where you have a people utterly unaccustomed to this kind of warfare -- warfare from the skies with all the unimaginable horrors of the unknown -- it requires more than courage to display the spirit which quite ordinary people in Britain have displayed.
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