war

war is a 3-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective, noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Ware; aware. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Ware; aware.
2. noun. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
3. noun. A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
4. noun. Instruments of war.
5. noun. Forces; army.
6. noun. The profession of arms; the art of war.
7. noun. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
8. intransitive verb. 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.
9. intransitive verb. To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
10. transitive verb. To make war upon; to fight.
11. transitive verb. To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
12. noun. a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious

    "the war on poverty"

    "the war against crime"

13. noun. the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

    "thousands of people were killed in the war"

    Synonyms: warfare

14. noun. an active struggle between competing entities

    "a price war"

    "a war of wits"

    Synonyms: warfare

15. noun. 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"

16. verb. make or wage war

Synonyms

warfare

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in war:

raw

Common word forms

wars, wared, wares, warly, warful, waring, warred, warrer, warless, warring

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