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Meaning:
Noun:
- A conflict involving the organized use of arms and physical force between countries or other large-scale armed groups. The warring parties hold territory, which they can win or lose; and each has a leading person or organization which can surrender, or collapse, thus ending the war.
- By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
- by analogy|uncountable A particular card game for two players.
- rhetorical A campaign against something. E.g., the ''war on drugs'' is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs; the ''war on terror'' is a campaign against terrorist crime.
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Verb:
- To engage in conflict with someone or something
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