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# warfare

«warfare» in Mova's school dictionary: **fighting in a war, or the way a war is fought** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (warfare — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Warfare is fighting in a war, or the way a war is fought. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warfare/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, children learn about different kinds of warfare. Phrases: modern warfare, chemical warfare.

### examples

- Warfare changed when guns were invented. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warfare/#x1)
- Ancient warfare used swords and shields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warfare/#x2)
- Chemical warfare is banned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warfare/#x3)
- The book is about warfare at sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warfare/#x4)
- Warfare causes great suffering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warfare/#x5)
- Knights trained for warfare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warfare/#x6)
- In the above-described warfare, if a Pygmy chanced to pluck out a crane's tail feather, it proved a very great feather in his cap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warfare/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. Not «a warfare».

### In the corpora

- [And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.809/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «warfare» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warfare/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.