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the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
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sample sentences

"thousands of people were killed in the war"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
war
semantic pointers
member of this domain (topic)
de-escalation side despoiler, plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, raider, freebooter war, state of war
hypernym
action, military action
hyponym
limited war psychological warfare, war of nerves civil war chemical warfare, chemical operations biological warfare, BW, biological attack, biologic attack, bioattack information warfare, IW world war hot war
part meronym
battle, fight, engagement, conflict combat, armed combat aggression
domain of synset (topic)
armed forces, military, armed services, military machine, war machine
instance hyponym
Chino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War Macedonian War Arab-Israeli War, Six-Day War, Six Day War Arab-Israeli War, Yom Kippur War Balkan Wars Boer War Crimean War Franco-Prussian War French and Indian War Hundred Years' War Iran-Iraq War, Gulf War Korean War Mexican War Napoleonic Wars Peloponnesian War Persian Gulf War, Gulf War Punic War Russo-Japanese War Seven Years' War Spanish-American War, Spanish War Thirty Years' War Trojan War Vietnam War, Vietnam War of Greek Independence War of the Austrian Succession War of the Grand Alliance, War of the League of Augsburg War of the Spanish Succession War of the Roses, Wars of the Roses War of 1812