4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Warfare \War"fare`\, v. i. To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars. --Camden. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Warfare \War"fare`\, n. [War + OE. fare a journey, a passage, course, AS. faru. See {Fare}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. [1913 Webster] The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. --I Sam. xxviii. 1. [1913 Webster] This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Contest; struggle. [1913 Webster] The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. --2 Cor. x. 4. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: warfare n 1: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war" [syn: {war}] 2: an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war"; "a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare" [syn: {war}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 39 Moby Thesaurus words for "warfare": Kilkenny cats, altercation, argument, bickering, cat-and-dog life, combat, competition, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, disputation, dispute, emulation, enmity, fighting, hostility, litigation, logomachy, paper war, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, rivalry, scrapping, squabbling, strife, striving, struggle, tug-of-war, war, war of words, words, wrangling
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