war zone

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noun

(during wartime) a combat area in which the rights of neutrals are suspended, as such an area on the high seas, where ships flying a neutral flag are subject to attack.

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Origin of war zone

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby war zone

war-weary, war whoop, Warwick, Warwickshire, wary, war zone, was, wasabi, Wasatch Range, wash, washable

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How to use war zone in a sentence

He thinks it is a great shame that for the past 100 years we’ve seen nature as a huge war zone in which everyone is fighting everyone else.
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When Foster first set foot inside the house, the damage was comparable to a war zone, she said.
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Gaza is no longer an active war zone, but the emergency hasn’t fully abated.
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The international body worked with local war zone organizations to encourage a diverse pool of people to take part.
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“They want us to be afraid,” Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, says as his plane starts to descend, bringing him home from a trip to the war zone near his country’s border with Russia.
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They are, to say the least, preparing for civil war (the polling stations are stormed by armed gangs).
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But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
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Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
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Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
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It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition.
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He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.
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His 6,000 native auxiliaries (as it proved later on) could not be relied upon in a civil war.
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"There is no more war," Brion translated for Ulv, realizing that the Disan had understood nothing of the explanation.
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I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.
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We were now masters of the whole country, and the war was apparently at an end.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

British Dictionary definitions for war zone

warzone

/ (ˈwɔːˌzəʊn) /

noun

an area where a war is taking place or there is some other violent conflict

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