Make+war

  • 1make war — index fight (battle) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 2make war — fight with troops and planes and bombs    To make war is to be greedy or insane or both …

    English idioms

  • 3make war — begin a war, start fighting, begin combat …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 4make war — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. battle, combat, encounter; see fight 2 …

    English dictionary for students

  • 5War — • In its juridical sense, a contention carried on by force of arms between sovereign states, or communities having in this regard the right of states Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. War     War …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 6War of the Eight Saints — Date 1375–July 1378 Location Italian peninsula Result Peace treaty concluded at Tivoli …

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  • 7make — make1 [māk] vt. made, making [ME maken < OE macian, akin to Ger machen < IE base * maĝ , to knead, press, stretch > MASON, Gr magis, kneaded mass, paste, dough, mageus, kneader] 1. to bring into being; specif., a) to form by shaping or… …

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  • 8war — [n] armed conflict battle, bloodshed, cold war, combat, conflict, contention, contest, enmity, fighting, hostilities, hostility, police action, strife, strike, struggle, warfare; concept 320 Ant. ceasefire, peace war [v] fight, battle attack,… …

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  • 9War — War, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Warred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warring}.] 1. To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence. [1913 Webster] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 10War pig — War pigs, also known as incendiary pigs and sometimes known as Fire pigs , are pigs speculatedFact|date=August 2008 to have been used at most rarely in ancient warfare as a countermeasure to war elephants. The pigs were allegedlyFact|date=August… …

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