warring
adj.
fighting, battling
war
v.
battle, combat, fight, struggle; be in a state of war
warring
Adjective
1. engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war"
(synonym) belligerent, fighting, militant, war-ridden
(similar) unpeaceful
war
Noun
1. the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"
(synonym) warfare
(hypernym) military action, action
(hyponym) limited war
(part-meronym) battle, conflict, fight, engagement
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
(class) de-escalation
2. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"
(synonym) state of war
(antonym) peace
(hypernym) hostility, enmity, antagonism
(hyponym) proxy war
(classification) warfare
3. an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare"
(synonym) warfare
(hypernym) conflict, struggle, battle
(hyponym) drug war
4. a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; "the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"
(hypernym) campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort
Verb
1. make or wage war
(antonym) make peace
(hypernym) fight, struggle
(hyponym) blitzkrieg
(derivation) state of war
Warring
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of War
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Zobah
Zobebah, an army; warring
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock.
About
warring
Synonyms and related words:
aggressive, ajar, all-out war, antagonistic, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, battling, bellicose, belligerence, belligerency, belligerent, bloodshed, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, clashing, combat, combative, conflicting, confused, contending, contentious, contestant, contesting, disputant, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight, grating, harsh, hawkish, hostile, hostilities, hot war, inimical, jangling, jangly, jarring, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jostling, la guerre, martial, might of arms, militant, militaristic, military, military operations, offensive, open hostilities, open war, pugnacious, quarrelsome, resort to arms, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shooting war, soldierlike, soldierly, state of war, striving, struggling, the sword, total war, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, war, warfare, warlike, warmaking, warmongering, wartime
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.