Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The waging of war against an enemy; armed conflict.
- n. Military operations marked by a specific characteristic: guerrilla warfare; chemical warfare.
- n. A state of disharmony or conflict; strife: constant spousal warfare in the household.
- n. Acts undertaken to destroy or undermine the strength of another: political warfare.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A warlike or military expedition; military operations; hostilities; war; armed contest.
- n. Figuratively, any contest, struggle, or strife.
- To carry on warfare or engage in war; contend; struggle.
Wiktionary
- n. The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy
- n. Military operations of some particular kind e.g. guerrilla warfare
- v. To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
- n. Contest; struggle.
- v. To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an active struggle between competing entities
- n. the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
Etymologies
- This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English : warre, war; see war + fare, journey (from Old English faru, from faran, to journey; see fare). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Their business model isn't based on marketing warfare, it's based on _total _warfare -- and it's not based on cutthroat capitalism, it's based on cutthroat _criminalism_.”
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
“The circumstance that the uranium the Americans use in warfare is depleted just underscores their general decency.”
“The hardest thing in warfare is to counter someone or a group of individuals who are willing to take their own lives in order to take others.”
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“The Nylon Model 66 proved the new 5.56 rifle had a place in warfare is what I understood, interesting.”
“Not everyone knows it, but a very great deal of what happens in warfare is simple trickery.”
“It kinda works if you stick with the traditional definition: “Guerrilla warfare is the irregular warfare and combat in which a small group of combatants use mobile military tactics in the form of ambushes and raids to combat a larger and less mobile formal army.””
“We're all collections of internal warring factions, no doubt -- but for the protagonists of our scandals, the warfare is apparently far bloodier.”
The Washington Post: Why is Eliot Spitzer on TV? Because disgrace doesn't stick like it used to.
“As soldiers, exposed to hardship and in the midst of enemies; we must serve and be under command; and, when our warfare is accomplished, we must be disbanded, dismissed with either shame or honour, according to what we have done in the body.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“Where you have a people utterly unaccustomed to this kind of warfare -- warfare from the skies with all the unimaginable horrors of the unknown -- it requires more than courage to display the spirit which quite ordinary people in Britain have displayed.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘warfare’.
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