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In Salinger's case the war was the second world war, and like so many veterans of the that era, Salinger rarely talked about his battle experience.

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  1. noun A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.
  2. noun The period of such conflict.
  3. noun The techniques and procedures of war; military science.
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  • Money for the war was about to be cut, so public-relations events like this were an attempt to bolster civilian support. —  FSF,September2004
  • If it takes two to tango, it also takes two to fight a war and Google has so completely owned the field in search that to describe the resulting marketspace as a war has been about as apt as applying the term to when —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • In Salinger's case the war was the second world war, and like so many veterans of the that era, Salinger rarely talked about his battle experience. —  The Guardian World News
  • Bush's mocking response to dwindling public support for the war has been the "troop surge," or simply more of the same, while simultaneously threatening neighboring countries like Iran. —  Asheville Indymedia Summaries
  • It also cannot be a war alone, for the war will be the easy part. —  Freezerbox Magazine
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battle ·  life ·  action ·  government ·  business ·  attack ·  army ·  death ·  history ·  campaign

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war:   wars ·  War ·  warred ·  warring
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English warre, from Old North French werre, of Germanic origin; see wers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English warre; from Middle English wer, werr, were, werre, weorre, wyrre, from late Anglo-Saxon werre (also cited in Anglo-Latin as *war, in comp. warscot), from Old French werre, guerre, French guerre = Provencal guerra, gerra = Spanish Portuguese Italian guerra, war, from Middle Latin werra, war, from Old High German werra, vexation; strife, controversy, confusion, broil (= Middle Dutch werre = Middle Low German werre, strife, war, hostility), from werran (fir-werran), Middle High German werren (ver-werren), German wirren (verwirren), confuse, entangle, embroil, = Middle Dutch werren (ver-werren), embroil, entangle; akin to English worse: see worse, and cf. war, ult. a variant of worse. The F. guerre appears in the phrase nom de guerre, and the Spanish in the diminutive guerrilla. Hence war, v., warray, warrior, etc.
  2. Scots also waur; from Middle English warre, werre, wer, a later form, after OFries. werra, wirra, worse, of Icelandic verri, adjective (verr, adverb) = Danish værre = Swedish värre, of Middle English werse, English worse: see worse.
  3. Scots also waur; from war, a.
 

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