Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To heal; cure.
- To be healed or cured; recover.
- See
wearish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal.
- intransitive verb obsolete To be cured; to recover.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
cure orheal (an illness or person) - verb obsolete, intransitive To get better; to
recover from an illness
Etymologies
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From the present participle stem of Anglo-Norman warir, from Old French guarir (modern guérir), from Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 ‘protect, defend’, from Proto-Germanic *warjan. Compare guarish.
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Okay, I like Samantha Power too, but even she gets some criticism from lefties I respect like Robert Sheer for being sort of wishy-washy and pro-warish on Iraq early on.
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Politicians play war games with people's lives, these are not toy soldiers or toy civilians they can die and in turn this increases the likely hood of war, human nature is warish/tribal, democracy is not every ones choice - micromanaging the unmanageable isn't going to save lives.
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Be the first person to mark this question as interesting! warish hall farm
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Meanwhile Arnaud de Borchgrave at the normally rather pro-warish
Kings of War 2008
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