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Synonyms for warfare
noun armed conflict

combat
clash
discord
fighting
strife
struggle

battle
rivalry
war
competition
contest
arms

strategy
emulation
campaigning
counterinsurgency
hostilities
tug-of-war

blows
striving
armed struggle
military operation
passage of arms

Antonyms for warfare

surrender
truce

peace
ceasefire

harmony

Concept Thesaurus for word warfare
1. Conditional antagonism
Synonyms – noun

warfare
arms
grim visaged war
appeal to the sword
arbitrament of the sword.
expedition
warpath.
castrametation
ballistics
shot.
campaigning
Kriegsspiel
bugle
war-whoop
tom-tom
watchword
guerre a mort
civil war.

fighting
the sword
horrida bella
ordeal of battle
battle array
mobilization
art of war
generalship
gunnery
battle
active service
fire cross
pibroch
battle cry
calumet of war
passage d’armes.
guerre a outrance

hostilities
Mars
bloodshed.
wager of battle
campaign
state of siege
tactics
soldiership
chivalry.
tug of war (contention) [more]
tented field
trumpet
slogan
beat of drum
word of command
war to the death
open war

war
Bellona
appeal to arms
ultima ratio regum
crusade
battlefield (arena)
strategy
military evolutions
gunpowder
service
kriegspiel
clarion
war-cry
rappel
password
war to the knife
internecine war

Synonyms – verbs

arm
take up the cudgels
fly to the sword
dig up the tomahawk
[Julius Caesar]
raise one’s banner
fling away the scabbard
take the law into one’s own hands
engage in battle
fall to
cross swords
combat
serve
campaign
be under fire
carry on war
fight it out
sell one’s life dearly.

raise troops
take up arms
draw the sword
go to war
cry havoc
raise the fire cross
enroll
do battle
go to battle
engage
come to blows
contend
see service
wield the sword
spill blood
carry on hostilities
fight like devils

mobilize troops
fly to arms
unsheathe the sword
wage war
kindle the torch of war
hoist the black flag
enlist
give battle
flesh one’s sword
measure swords with
come to close quarters
battle with
be on service
shoulder a musket
imbrue the hands in blood
keep the field
fight one’s way

raise up in arms
appeal to arms
dig up the hatchet
“let slip the dogs of war”
light the torch of war
throw away
take the field
join battle
set to
draw the trigger
fight
break a lance with.
be on active service
smell powder
on the warpath.
fight the good fight
fight hand to hand

Synonyms – adjectives

contending, contentious
sword in hand
at war with
in the field
unpeaceful
bellicose
militant
strategical

armed
in arms
bristling with arms
embattled
belligerant
martial
soldierlike
internecine.

armed to the teeth
under arms
in battle array
battled.
combative
warlike
soldierly.

armed cap-a-pie
up in arms
in open arms
unpacific
armigerous
military
chivalrous

Synonyms – phrases
the battle rages; a la guerre comme a la guerre; bis peccare in bello non licet; jus gladii; “my voice is still for war” [Addison]; “’tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it” [Robert E. Lee]; “my sentence is for open war” [Milton]; “pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war” [Othello]; “the cannons have their bowels full of wrath” [King John]; “the cannons…spit forth their iron indignation” [King John]; “the fire-eyed maid of smoky war” [Henry IV]; silent
Antonyms

peace

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