war
noun
a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
are warring
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present progressiveof war.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Various ideological and generational factions are warring against each other and nobody seems to be winning.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
His aides are warring; England is in lockdown again; Britain continues to tally the highest death toll from the coronavirus in Europe.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2020
“It’s like when family members are warring over a sick patient,” she added.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2013
If you listen to their rhetoric over Leveson and the like, you'd suppose politicians and journalists are warring tribes, defined in antipathy.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2013
Cut away till your arms ache and your head swims with the strain of measuring angles and inches and pyramids and obelisks; Nature is working at the root while you are warring on the branches.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various
