warfare

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

warfare
    n 1: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands
         of people were killed in the war" [syn: {war}, {warfare}]
    2: an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war";
       "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare" [syn: {war}, {warfare}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Warfare \War"fare`\, v. i.
   To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
   --Camden.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Warfare \War"fare`\, n. [War + OE. fare a journey, a passage,
   course, AS. faru. See {Fare}, n.]
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   1. Military service; military life; contest carried on by
      enemies; hostilities; war.
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            The Philistines gathered their armies together for
            warfare, to fight with Israel.        --I Sam.
                                                  xxviii. 1.
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            This day from battle rest;
            Faithful hath been your warfare.      --Milton.
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   2. Contest; struggle.
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            The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. --2 Cor.
                                                  x. 4.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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