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RELATED WORDS : bacteriological warfare biological warfare biological warfare defence biological warfare defense chemical warfare class warfare ecological warfare electronic warfare germ warfare information warfare naval air warfare center weapons division naval special warfare naval surface warfare center naval underwater warfare center psychological warfare tank warfare trench warfare

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun warfare has 2 senses

• warfare(n = noun.act) war - the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"
is a kind of action, military action
has particulars: limited war, psychological warfare, war of nerves, civil war, chemical operations, chemical warfare, bioattack, biologic attack, biological attack, biological warfare, bw, information warfare, iw, international jihad, jehad, jihad, world war, hot war, chino-japanese war, sino-japanese war, macedonian war, arab-israeli war, six-day war, six day war, arab-israeli war, yom kippur war, balkan wars, boer war, crimean war, franco-prussian war, french and indian war, hundred years' war, gulf war, iran-iraq war, korean war, mexican war, napoleonic wars, peloponnesian war, gulf war, persian gulf war, punic war, russo-japanese war, seven years' war, spanish-american war, spanish war, thirty years' war, trojan war, vietnam, vietnam war, war of greek independence, war of the austrian succession, war of the grand alliance, war of the league of augsburg, war of the spanish succession, war of the roses, wars of the roses, war of 1812
has parts: battle, conflict, engagement, fight, armed combat, combat, aggression

• warfare(n = noun.act) war - an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare"
is a kind of battle, conflict, struggle
has particulars: drug war, trench warfare

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THESAURUS

warfare

Kilkenny cats, altercation, argument, bickering, cat-and-dog life, combat, competition, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, disputation, dispute, emulation, enmity, fighting, hostility, litigation, logomachy, paper war, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rivalry, scrapping, squabbling, strife, striving, struggle, tug-of-war, war, war of words, words, wrangling

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Discord

N discord, disagreement, discord, disaccord, dissidence, dissonance, jar, clash, shock, jarring, jostling, screw loose, variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie, division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach, schism, feud, faction, quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words, wrangling, jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap, family jars, polemics, litigation, strife, warfare, outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war, broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation, embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus, breeze, squall, riot, disturbance, commotion, bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point, bone of contention, bone to pick, apple of discord, casus belli, question at issue, vexed question, vexata quaestio, brand of discord, troublous times, cat-and-dog life, contentiousness, enmity, hate, Kilkenny cats, disputant, strange bedfellows, discordant, disagreeing, out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient, unreconciled, unpacified, contentious, quarrelsome, unpacific, gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious, factious, litigious, litigant, pettifogging, at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words, up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled, torn, disunited, quot homines tot sententiae, no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites, Mars gravior sub pace latet, discord, discordance, dissonance, cacophony, want of harmony, caterwauling, harshness, Babel, Dutch concert, cat's concert, marrowbones and cleavers, discordant, dissonant, absonant, out of tune, tuneless, unmusical, untunable, unmelodious, immelodious, unharmonious, inharmonious, singsong, cacophonous, harsh, jarring.

Warfare

N warfare, fighting, hostilities, war, arms, the sword, Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella, bloodshed, appeal to arms, appeal to the sword, ordeal of battle, wager of battle, ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword, battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations, mobilization, state of siege, battlefield, theater of operations, warpath, art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation, generalship, soldiership, logistics, military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery, chivalry, gunpowder, shot, battle, tug of war, service, campaigning, active service, tented field, kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel, fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan, war-cry, war-whoop, battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom, calumet of war, word of command, password, watchword, passage d-armes, war to the death, war to the knife, guerre a mort, guerre a outrance, open war, internecine war, civil war, contending, contentious, armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie, sword in hand, in arms, under arms, up in arms, at war with, bristling with arms, in battle array, in open arms, in the field, embattled, battled, unpacific, unpeaceful, belligerent, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike, military, militant, soldier-like, soldierly, chivalrous, strategical, internecine, flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth, at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet, Int, vae victis!, to arms!, to your tents O Israel!, the battle rages, a la guerre comme a la guerre, bis peccare in bello non licet, jus gladii, my voice is still for war, 'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it, my sentence is for open war, pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war, the cannons have their bowels full of wrath, the cannons aspit forth their iron indignation, the fire-eyed maid of smoky war, silent leges inter arma, si vis pacem para bellum.

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