war
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(ISO 639)
Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
(ux); war|civil war
(RQ:KJV)
1854, (w), letter to (w) from (w):
- War is indeed a fearful thing and the more I see it the more dreadful it appears.
1864 Sept. 12, (w), letter to the mayor of (w) & al.:
- You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out... You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.
1879 June 19, (w), speech to the Michigan Military Academy:
- I've been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It's entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is hell!
{{quote-book|en|year=1907|author=Edward Porter Alexander|title=Military Memoirs of a Confederate|pageurl=https://www.google.com.hk/books/edition/Military_Memoirs_of_a_Confederate/kuopAAAAYAAJ?pg=PA302|page=302
(RQ:Ford Life and Work)
(quote-text)|pages=1 & 7
(quote-text)|section=Pt. III
1944 June 27, (w), speech to the (w):
- Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
(RQ:Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four)
(quote-song)
(quote-text)
2013 July 20, "Old Soldiers?", ''The Economist'', Vol. 408, No. 8845:
- (w), the inventor of the field of sociobiology, once wrote that "war is embedded in our very nature". This is a belief commonly held not just by sociobiologists but also by anthropologists and other students of human behaviour. They base it not only on the propensity of modern man to go to war with his neighbours (and, indeed, with people halfway around the world, given the chance) but also on observations of the way those who still live a pre-agricultural "hunter-gatherer" life behave... Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine... One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries... Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
A particular conflict of this kind.
{{quote-text|en|year=1865|author=Herman Melville|title=The Surrender at Appomattox
1999 Nov. 8, (w), speech at (w):
- A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war.
(ux)... a of attrition|war of attrition... the War|Cold War... War III|World War III...
Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
2001 Sept. 20, (w), speech before (w), White House Archives:
- Our on Terror|war on terror begins with (w), but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
2021 Sept. 8, Seth G. Jones, quoted in Chris Moody, "Twenty Years after 9/11, Did US Win Its ‘War on Terror’?" ''(w)'':
- "...These wars are not going away. This is at least a generational struggle."
(ux)... the (w)...
(cap) protracted conflict, particularly
{{quote-text|en|year=1906|author=William James|title=The Moral Equivalent of War
(ux)... the (w)... the on Christmas|War on Christmas...
A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
(ux)... (w)...
A prolonged conflict between two groups of crime|organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
(ux)...
An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
(ux)
An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
(RQ:Prior Poetical Works)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(senseid) Any of a family of games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to time.
(quote-book)
To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
{{quote-text|en|year=1595|author=Samuel Daniel|title=The First Four Books of the Civil Wars
1611, (w), (w), 31:7:
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
{{quote-text|en|year=1882|author=George Bernard Shaw|title=Cashel Byron's Profession|chapter=14
(quote-journal)
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
(RQ:KJV), that thou by them mighteſt warre a good warfare,(nb..).
to be (l), (l)
to arrive
(fresh) water
{{quote-journal|nl|author=Josien Wolthuizen; Hanneloes Pen|title=Man doodgestoken in fietsenwinkel Nieuw-West|journal=Het Parool|date=March 15 2016
{{quote-journal|nl|title=Wist je dat papierklemmen je leven veel gemakkelijker kunnen maken?|journal=Het Laatste Nieuws|date=January 29 2016
an elevated area on the floor of a body of water, a kind of contraption for luring and catching fish, where nets and fykes could be installed
{{quote-text|nl|year=1949|author=G. Karsten|chapter=Eenvorme, Informe, Yefforme|title=De Speelwagen|section=10, no. 4: 307
{{quote-text|nl|year=1667|title=Handtvesten, privilegien, willekeuren ende ordonnantien der Stadt Enchuysen|page=345
where, in what place
(verb form of)
(inflection of)
(by extension) vehicle
(RQ:zlw-opl:MMAe)
(RQ:zlw-opl:StPPP)
(syn)
var, (w) (gl)
(inflection of); were
(uxi)