warfare
Americannoun
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the process of military struggle between two nations or groups of nations; war.
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armed conflict between two massed enemies, armies, or the like.
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conflict, especially when vicious and unrelenting, between competitors, political rivals, etc.
noun
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the act, process, or an instance of waging war
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conflict, struggle, or strife
Other Word Forms
- semiwarfare noun
Etymology
Origin of warfare
1425–75; late Middle English werefare, i.e., a faring forth to war; war 1, fare
Example Sentences
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"Naval warfare is technological. You cannot overwhelm an area with 'meat'," Pletenchuk says, using the term to refer to the sheer number of soldiers at Russia's disposal.
From BBC
Iran's naval crews have focussed much of their training on unconventional or "asymmetric" warfare, looking at ways to overcome or bypass the technical advantages enjoyed by their primary adversary, the US Navy's Fifth Fleet.
From BBC
The most likely is a fifth year of grinding attritional warfare, while talks go round in circles.
The tender for the mobile cognitive warfare unit reads like a “fever dream” of Chinese military AI ambitions, said Sam Bresnick, a research fellow at CSET.
Two World Wars—and the surge in destructive technology—showed that industrial warfare had made territorial expansionism devastating.
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