Warfare
Nouns
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warfare
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fighting etc. v.
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hostilities
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war, arms, the sword
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Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war
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bloodshed. appeal to arms, appeal to the sword
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ordeal of battle
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wager of battle
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arbitrament of the sword. battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations
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mobilization
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state of siege
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battlefield, theater of operations etc. (arena) Arena
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warpath. art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation
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generalship
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soldiership
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logistics
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military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery
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chivalry. gunpowder, shot. battle, tug of war etc. (contention) Contention
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service, campaigning, active service, tented field
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fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan
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war-cry, war-whoop
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battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom
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calumet of war
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word of command
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password, watchword
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war to the knife
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open war, internecine war, civil war.
Verbs
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arm
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raise troops, mobilize troops
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raise up in arms
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take up the cudgels etc. Contention
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take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword
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draw the sword, unsheathe the sword
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dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk
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go to war, wage war, let slip the dogs of war" [Julius Caesar]
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cry havoc
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kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war
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raise one's banner, raise the fire cross
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hoist the black flag
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throw away, fling away the scabbard
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enroll, enlist
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take the field
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take the law into one's own hands
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do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle
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flesh one's sword
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set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords
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come to blows, come to close quarters
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fight
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combat
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contend etc. Contention
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battle with, break a lance with. [pirates engage in battle] raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger. serve
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see service, be on service, be on active service
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campaign
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wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire
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spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood
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on the warpath. carry on war, carry on hostilities
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keep the field
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fight the good fight
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fight it out, fight like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to hand
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sell one's life dearly
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pay the ferryman's fee.
Adjectives
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contending, contentious etc. Contention
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armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie
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sword in hand
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in arms, under arms, up in arms
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at war with
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bristling with arms
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in battle array, in open arms, in the field
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embattled
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battled. unpacific, unpeaceful
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belligerent, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike
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military, militant
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soldier-like, soldierly. chivalrous
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strategical, internecine.
Adverbs
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in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth
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at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet.
Int
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to arms!, to your tents O Israel!
Phrases
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the battle rages
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my voice is still for war" [Addison]
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'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we 'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it" [Robert E. Lee]
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my sentence is for open war" [Milton]
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pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war" [Othello]
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the cannons have their bowels full of wrath" [King John]
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the cannons aspit forth their iron indignation" [King John]
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the fire-eyed maid of smoky war" [Henry IV]