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See definition of wars on Dictionary.com
  • nounarmed conflict
  • verbfight, battle

synonyms for wars

  • battle
  • bloodshed
  • combat
  • conflict
  • fighting
  • hostility
  • strife
  • strike
  • struggle
  • warfare
  • contention
  • contest
  • enmity
  • hostilities
  • cold war
  • police action

antonyms for wars

MOST RELEVANT
  • accord
  • harmony
  • peace
  • surrender
  • truce
  • friendship
  • good will
  • kindness
  • ceasefire
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How to use wars in a sentence

They have fought countless bloody wars and have committed countless horrible atrocities in their zeal for Him.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
He was distinguished in the wars of his country by several important victories.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
The years that followed the close of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 were in many senses years of unexampled misery.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
Jean Lannes had already had a taste of the soldier's life before the outbreak of the revolutionary wars.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
Meanwhile he wrote an impassioned letter to Napoleon urging him to seek no more wars of conquest.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
Wars in India and China, brought gloriously to an advantageous termination.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
And when ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled: these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.
HIS LAST WEEKWILLIAM E. BARTON
During his hours of leisure the Marshal wrote his Memoirs, which he intended to aid the future historian of the French wars.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
But the battle was not won until one of those strange incidents happened that distinguish the Mutiny from all other wars.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
Itit would have been a tragedy based upon several 133 of the main incidents in the Punic Wars.
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISON
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