war

Noun

• a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
  • the war on poverty
    
  • the war against crime
    

• an active struggle between competing entities
  • a price war
    
  • a war of wits
    
  • diplomatic warfare
    

• 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
    

• the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
  • thousands of people were killed in the war
    

Verb

• make or wage war

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  warfare , state of war
• Antonyms: 
  peace , make peace