war
/wɔɹ/ verb C2- To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
- To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
He/she/it wars · Past warred · Past participle warred · -ing form warring
Verb forms
- Base form
- war
- He/she/it
- wars
- Past
- warred
- Past participle
- warred
- -ing form
- warring
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de Blacas and the minister of police, “I have no further occasion for you, and you may retire; what now remains to do is in the department of the minister of war.”
THE DOLPHINS and Whales waged a fierce war with each other.
As long as the war lasted, he looked upon him as his fellow-helper in all emergencies and fed him carefully with hay and corn.
But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.
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