WAR

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war I. substantiv

1. război; luptă (şi fig.);

civil / intestine war război civil;

war of manoeuvre război de manevră;

in the war la război, în vreme de război;

war to the knife război de exterminare;

in the midst of war în plin război;

at war în stare de război;

to carry the war into the enemy's country / camp a purta război pe teritoriul inamicului;

to declare war on a declara război (cu dat.);

to levy / to make / to wage war on a duce război împotriva (cu gen.);

on a war footing pe picior de război; gata de luptă;

the Great War, World War I, the War of the Nations primul război mondial;

World War II al doilea război mondial;

war of the elements lupta elementelor naturii;

wordy war, war of words război de cuvinte.

2. (mil.) serviciu militar, arta războiului; tactică; strategie.

war II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a se război, a purta război.

2. (fig.) (for) a se război, a se certa (pentru).

war II. verb B. tranzitiv

(înv.) to war down a cuceri, a învinge.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

That's why I made a little war on my own.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The war has made us more rococo than ever.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aye, but the men of the law are strong in France as well as the men of war.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This aspect, involving Mars’ tug of war with Uranus, is perhaps the hottest and hardest to deal with, affecting mainly Scorpios born October 23-31.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Charles had never seen a pleasanter man in his life; and from what he had once heard Captain Wentworth himself say, was very sure that he had not made less than twenty thousand pounds by the war.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

I'm thinking, young man, you have been in the wars.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have been to the Admiralty, said he, and I trust that I shall have a ship when war breaks out; by all accounts it will not be long first.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We three shall to the wars together, and the devil may fly away with the Abbot of Beaulieu! But your feet and hosen are all besmudged. Hast been in the water, or I am the more mistaken.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here was a fortune at once; besides which, there would be the chance of what might be done in any future war; and he was sure Captain Wentworth was as likely a man to distinguish himself as any officer in the navy.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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