Synonyms for civil war
civ·il war

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1. civil warnoun

   Synonyms:
   intestine war

2. civil warnoun

   A war fought between factions of the inhabitants of a single country, or the citizens of a single republic.

   Synonyms:
   intestine war

Princeton's WordNet

1. civil warnoun

   a war between factions in the same country

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1. Roman Zrazhevskiy:

   They're concerned about what Trump is doing, the whole civil war thing isn't that implausible.

2. Michael Heseltine:

   To have a civil war within the Conservative Party at that time, in the belief that the referendum having been determined the participants in this civil war are going to sit round table the table and happily smile together is, I think, rather naive, it split the Labour Party ... it kept the Labour Party out of power for nearly two decades.

3. Special Representative Abdoulaye Bathily:

   After almost 20 years of violence, civil war, it would be really sad for Burundi to plunge again into a new circle of violence.

4. Matthew Greene:

   My state of mind at that point was believing that we were on the verge of civil war, and this could be the opening part of it, i wanted to be close.

5. Chris Harmer:

   It’s staggering to me that anybody even at year five of this civil war thought this would be a good idea.