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Warring   /wˈɔrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
War  v. t.  
1.
To make war upon; to fight. (R.) "To war the Scot, and borders to defend."
2.
To carry on, as a contest; to wage. (R.) "That thou... mightest war a good warfare."


War  v. i.  (past & past part. warred; pres. part. warring)  
1.
To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence. "Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it." "Why should I war without the walls of Troy?" "Our countrymen were warring on that day!"
2.
To contend; to strive violently; to fight. "Lusts which war against the soul."





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"Warring" Quotes from Famous Books



... trouble at the gambling table, and eventually, in suicide, Jeff could not deny it. But he did not say that a full realization of his unhappy venture overcame him as he closed the blinds of the hotel that night; and that the half desperate idea of abandoning it then and there to the warring elements that had resented his trespass on Nature seemed to him an act of simple reason and justice. He did not say this, for easy-going natures are not apt to explain the processes by which their content or resignation is reached, and are therefore ...
— Jeff Briggs's Love Story • Bret Harte
... [13] let him stay; a greater [task] Fits Menaphon than warring with a thief: Create him pro-rex of all [14] Africa, That he may win the Babylonians' hearts, Which will revolt from Persian government, Unless they have a wiser king ...
— Tamburlaine the Great, Part I. • Christopher Marlowe
... either side, he could play one party against the other, as best suited his purposes. He came to bring freedom to the one, to promote the revolt of the other, check the oppression of the third, and destroy the presumption of the another {133} tribe, or warring nation. So he caused his purposes ...
— South American Fights and Fighters - And Other Tales of Adventure • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith! She reels not in the storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No," She sees the Best that glimmers through the Worst, She feels the sun is hid but for a night, She spies the summer through the winter bud, She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls, ...
— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine
... they soon will be forgotten, Sleeping in the depth of ages. Gory red the river runneth, And the plains with blood are steaming— Boiling blood, which from the wounded Floweth, gushing fast and freely. Why is all this ruthless ravage, And this people fiercely warring? It is for a vain ambition, Or a little earthly matter Which they cannot settle better Than in war and deadly bloodshed, Or to gain an angry vengeance For some insult which appeareth To imagination hideous. Now we leave the ...
— A Leaf from the Old Forest • J. D. Cossar


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