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state of war definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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: war, state of war] [ant: peace]

Merriam Webster's

Date: 1656 1. a. a state of actual armed hostilities regardless of a formal declaration of war b. a legal state created and ended by official declaration regardless of actual armed hostilities and usually characterized by operation of the rules of war 2. the period of time during which a state of war is in effect

Moby Thesaurus

all-out war, appeal to arms, armed combat, armed conflict, attack, battle, belligerence, belligerency, bloodshed, combat, fighting, hostilities, hot war, la guerre, might of arms, military operations, open hostilities, open war, resort to arms, shooting war, the sword, total war, war, warfare, warmaking, warring, wartime