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warred

VERB

fight, battle

Synonyms

STRONGEST

differ go to war take up arms

STRONG

attack attempt bombard challenge clash combat contend contest disagree endeavor kill meet murder oppugn shell shoot strive struggle tug

WEAK

campaign against engage in combat make war march against take on take the field against wage war

Antonyms

STRONG

agree aid be lazy give up laze protect retreat surrender

WEAK

ceasefire make peace

Example Sentences

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Milton, referring to the wars of the pygmies and the cranes, calls the former That small infantry Warred on by cranes.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

I should but exercise a sacred right, Derived from sad necessity, if I Warred with these bonds, encountered might with might, Roused and incited every state in Europe For my protection to unite in arms.

From Mary Stuart by Schiller, Friedrich

Brave men ne'er Warred with the dead and vanquished.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Schlegel.220.Divine personages of minute size produced from the hair of Brahmá, and probably the origin of “That small infantry Warred on by cranes.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)