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WARRING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does warring mean?
• WARRING (adjective)
The adjective WARRING has 1 sense:
1. engaged in war
Familiarity information: WARRING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Engaged in war
Synonyms:
belligerent; militant; war-ridden; warring
Context example:
belligerent (or warring) nations
Similar:
unpeaceful (not peaceful)
Context examples
It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the unknown, the terrible, the ever-menacing and ever warring.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
For the first time he heard of socialism, anarchism, and single tax, and learned that there were warring social philosophies.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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