From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Warfare \War"fare'\, noun [War + OE. fare a journey, a passage, course, AS. faru. See {Fare}, noun]
1. Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. --I Sam. xxviii. 1.
This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare. --Milton.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. --2 Cor. x. 4.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Warfare \War"fare'\, verb (used without an object) To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars. --Camden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war" [syn: {war}]
2: an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare" [syn: {war}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "warfare": Kilkenny cats, altercation, argument, bickering, cat-and-dog life, combat, competition, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, disputation, dispute, emulation, enmity, fighting, hostility, litigation, logomachy, paper war, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rivalry, scrapping, squabbling, strife, striving, struggle, tug-of-war, war, war of words, words, wrangling
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