war
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
war/wɔː(r)/
▶noun a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country.
■ a state of competition, conflict, or hostility: a price war.
■ a sustained campaign against something undesirable: a war on drugs.
▶verb (wars, warring, warred) engage in a war or conflict.– phrases
be in the wars informal be injured.
war clouds a threatening situation of instability in international relations.
be in the wars informal be injured.
war clouds a threatening situation of instability in international relations.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
War.
▶abbreviation Warwickshire.
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ack-ack
- ack emma
- aerobatics
- Agent Orange
- aggression
- air cover
- airhead
- Aldis lamp
- Anderson shelter
- angary
- antebellum
- areology
- armament
- arms
- ASDIC
- axis
- baby boom
- Bailey bridge
- balaclava
- base hospital
- belle époque
- bellicose
- belligerent
- berserk
- biological
- bioweapon
- blackshirt
- Blighty
- blimp
- blitzkrieg
- bluebottle
- Boche
- boffin
- bonnet
- Bren gun
- buckshee
- burton
- camouflage
- cannon fodder
- cardigan
- carpetbagger
- casualty
- casus belli
- cavalier
- cenotaph
- chemical
- Chetnik
- Chindit
- civil war
- clarion
