warring

3 definitions found

warring - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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              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.
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              Why should I war without the walls of Troy? --Shak.
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              Our countrymen were warring on that day! --Byron.
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     2. To contend; to strive violently; to fight. "Lusts which
        war against the soul." --1 Pet. ii. 11.
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warring - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  warring
      adj 1: engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations" [syn:
             belligerent, militant, war-ridden, warring]

warring - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "warring":
     aggressive, ajar, all-out war, antagonistic, appeal to arms,
     armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, battling, bellicose,
     belligerence, belligerency, belligerent, bloodshed, bloodthirsty,
     bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, clashing, combat,
     combative, conflicting, confused, contending, contentious,
     contestant, contesting, disputant, enemy, ferocious, fierce,
     fighting, full of fight, grating, harsh, hawkish, hostile,
     hostilities, hot war, inimical, jangling, jangly, jarring, jingo,
     jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jostling, la guerre, martial,
     might of arms, militant, militaristic, military,
     military operations, offensive, open hostilities, open war,
     pugnacious, quarrelsome, resort to arms, saber-rattling,
     sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shooting war,
     soldierlike, soldierly, state of war, striving, struggling,
     the sword, total war, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly,
     unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, war, warfare, warlike,
     warmaking, warmongering, wartime