Synonyms for warfare
ˈwɔrˌfɛərwar·fare

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1. warfare

   Synonyms:
   antagonism, battle, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, disproportion, dissension, disunion, hostility, incongruity, inconsistency, opposition, schism, separation, variance

   Antonyms:
   accord, accordance, agreement, amity, concord, concurrence, conformity, congruity, consent, consistency, consonance, harmony, symmetry, unanimity, uniformity, union, unison, unity

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1. warfare

   Synonyms:
   war, hostilities, antagonism, campaign, engagement, belligerence

   Antonyms:
   peace, truce, pacification, accommodation, reconciliation, armistice, neutrality, friendliness

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1. war, warfarenoun

   the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

   "thousands of people were killed in the war"

   Synonyms:
   war, state of war

2. war, warfarenoun

   an active struggle between competing entities

   "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare"

   Synonyms:
   war, state of war

Matched Categories

1. • Conflict
   • Military
   • Military Action

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1. warfarenoun

   Synonyms:
   hostilities, war, state of war

2. warfarenoun

   Synonyms:
   contest, struggle, strife

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1. warfarenoun

   Synonyms:
   war, hostilities, crusade, struggle, strife, militancy

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1. List of paraphrases for "warfare":

   war, wars, battle, combat

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1. Orson Welles:

   In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.

2. Hans Albrecht Bethe:

   If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

3. Margaret Mead:

   Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

4. Wang Yi:

   This warfare can not continue to rage on, we need to think about what efforts we can make to bring this warfare to an end.

5. Elizabeth Warren:

   When I talk about this stuff, someone screams' class warfare,' well let me tell you something. These same rich guys have been waging class warfare against hard-working people for decades. I say it's time to fight back.