Meaning

1 senses

  1. To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

Examples

32 sentences

  1. Do you bring peace, or warfare?

    ruВы с миром или с войной? — odexed

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  2. Dan was an expert at psychological warfare.

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  3. Dan studied psychological warfare techniques at infantry academy.

    ruДэн изучал методы психологической войны в пехотном училище. — kinderpoke

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  4. The two countries are engaged in biological warfare.

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  5. We live in a time of psychological warfare.

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Origin

From war + fare; perhaps a shortening of Middle English werre-faringe, werfarynge (“waging

From war + fare; perhaps a shortening of Middle English werre-faringe, werfarynge (“waging war, warfare”, literally “going to war”).

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Forms

warfares, warfaring, warfared, warfared
Base formwarfare · to warfare
3rd person singularwarfares
Present participlewarfaring
Past simplewarfared
Past participlewarfared

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywarfare
he, she, itwarfares

Past simpleLesson

all personswarfared

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave warfared
he, she, ithas warfared

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill warfare

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
warewarehousewarheadwarilywarlikewarlock

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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