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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
War \War\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Warred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warring}.]
1. To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it. --Isa. vii. 1.
Why should I war without the walls of Troy? --Shak.
Our countrymen were warring on that day! --Byron.
2. To contend; to strive violently; to fight. ''Lusts which war against the soul.'' --1 Pet. ii. 11.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
warring See {war}
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
war
noun
1: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war" [syn: {warfare}]
2: a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring" [syn: {state of war}] [ant: {peace}]
3: an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare" [syn: {warfare}]
4: a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; "the war on poverty"; "the war against crime"
verb: make or wage war [ant: {make peace}] [also: {warring}, {warred}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
warring
adjective: engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war" [syn: {belligerent}, {fighting}, {militant}, {war-ridden}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "warring": aggressive, ajar, all-out war, antagonistic, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, battling, bellicose, belligerence, belligerency, belligerent, bloodshed, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, clashing, combat, combative, conflicting, confused, contending, contentious, contestant, contesting, disputant, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight, grating, harsh, hawkish, hostile, hostilities, hot war, inimical, jangling, jangly, jarring, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, jostling, la guerre, martial, might of arms, militant, militaristic, military, military operations, offensive, open hostilities, open war, pugnacious, quarrelsome, resort to arms, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, shooting war, soldierlike, soldierly, state of war, striving, struggling, the sword, total war, trigger-happy, truculent, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, war, warfare, warlike, warmaking, warmongering, wartime
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