AT WAR

Contention

Adjective: contending; Verb: together by the ears, at loggerheads at war at issue.

Disagreement

Adjective: disagreeing; Verb: discordant, discrepant; at variance, at war; hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with; unconformable, exceptional; intrusive, incongruous; disproportionate, disproportionated; inharmonious, unharmonious; inconsonant, unconsonant; divergent, repugnant to.

Opposition

Adjective: opposing, opposed;Verb: adverse, antagonistic; contrary; at variance; at issue, at war with.

Warfare

Adjective: contending, contentious; armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie; sword in hand; in arms, under arms, up in arms; at war with; bristling with arms; in battle array, in open arms, in the field; embattled; battled.

Crosswords: AT WAR

If I'm wrong, then we're at war; God help us all. (Crimson Tide; writing credit: Michael Schiffer. filmmaker Quentin Tarantino revised portions of the dialogue)

In the year 1855, England and France were at war with Russia in the Crimea. (The First Great Train Robbery; writing credit: Michael Crichton)

We may be at war with India, but there's no reason to overreact. (Vertical Limit; writing credit: Robert King)

Even though we are at war. (From a Distance; performing artist: Bette Midler)

The World at War (1974)

A Family at War (1970)

At War with the Army (1950)

Movies at War (1944)

Women at War (1943)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Nelson's Favourite: Hms Agamemnon at War 1781-1809 (reference)

• Strike Hard: A Bomber Airfield at War, RAF Downham Market and Its Squadrons 1942-46 (reference)

• Albania at War, 1939-1945 (Central European Studies) (reference)

• Assyria at War 1000-610BC (reference)

• Battle of the Coral Sea (World at War) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The World At War - 9 Volume Gift Set (reference)

• Weapons at War - Amphibious Warfare (reference)

• Weapons at War - Assaulting The Fortress (reference)

• Weapons at War - Experimental Weapons (reference)

• The World at War, Vol. 13: Tough Old Gut (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Halftone photo spread from Our Navy at War by Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy during World War I. It features a portrait photograph of Lieutenant David S. Ingalls, the U.S. Navy's first aerial "ace" (right), and a view of Lieutenant George H. Ludlow seated in an Italian-built Macchi M.5 flying boat (left). Inset is a photograph of Ensign Charles H. Hammann, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing Ludlow on 21 August 1918. Credit: NAVY.

Girls of Japanese ancestry playing softball at war relocation authority center, Manzanar, California: Ritsuko Masuda and Marion Fujii with hands on bat, before choosing sides. Credit: Library of Congress.

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). "Dear Mom...." A letter from her youngest son, far away at camp, highlights the day for war worker Eva Smuda. Like son, like mother, they're both giving every bit of energy to help Uncle Sam defeat the Axis. Credit: Library of Congress.

National Paint, Varnish & Lacquer Association Inc. Exhibit in Statler Hotel with Paint at war display II. Credit: Library of Congress.

Your country is at war / Frank Paulus 17. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All merchants shall have safe and secure exit from England, and entry to England, with the right to tarry there and to move about as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and right customs, quit from all evil tolls, except (in time of war) such merchants as are of the land at war with us. (reference)

In the event of any agreement being come to for the payment of interest on sums due before the war to or by the nationals of States which have been at war and recovered after the war, such interest shall in the case of losses recoverable under contracts of marine insurance run from the expiration of a period of one year from the date of the loss. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All these hopes were communicated from one to another in a sort of cheerful yet terrible whisper, which resembled the buzz of a hive of bees at war.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

If a person is granted such status by the UNHCR, it is the government policy to grant renewable temporary visas, provided that the person is not from a state with which the country is at war. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

The Government justifies these restrictions on the grounds that Saudi Arabia remains officially at war with Israel and that travel to Saudi Arabia therefore is considered subject to security considerations. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

A small number of Christian, Muslim, and Druze women who have married men from Arab states or the West Bank and Gaza have made unsubstantiated claims that the Government revoked their Israeli citizenship and their right to reenter Israel, particularly after marrying men who are citizens of countries technically at war with Israel. (references)

Economic History

Somalia

By 1988, Siad Barre was openly at war with sectors of his nation. (references)

Finland

Although an ally of the Soviet Union in World War II, the United States was not a signatory to this treaty because it had not been at war with Finland. (references)

Vietnam

For much of the history of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the country was at war, including a civil war in which the U.S. supported the defunct Republic of South Vietnam. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "AT WAR": at loggerheads at war at issue ♦ at war with ♦ be at war with ♦ hostility towards a country at war or foreign troops. Additional references.

Albanian

në luftë (on the warpath). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في حالة الحرب, ‏في ظرف. (various references)

Bulgarian 

във война. (various references)

Czech

ve válce. (various references)

Finnish

olla sodassa (be at war). (various references)

French

actes d'hostilité contre un belligérant ou des troupes étrangères (hostility towards a country at war or foreign troops). (various references)

German

im Krieg. (various references)

Hebrew 

במצב לוחמ�". (various references)

Hungarian

hadviselõ (belligerent), hadiállapotban. (various references)

Italian

atti di ostilit� contro un belligerante o contro truppe straniere (hostility towards a country at war or foreign troops). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

軍国 (militant nation, nation at war), 治乱 (peace or at war). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぐ�"�"く (militant nation, nation at war), ちら�" (peace or at war). (various references)

Pig Latin

atay arway

Portuguese

em guerra. (various references)

Romanian

fi în rãzboi cu (be at war with). (various references)

Russian 

в состоянии войны. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u ratu (war: at war), ratovati protiv (war: be at war with). (various references)

Spanish

estado de guerra, en guerra, en estado de guerra. (various references)

Swedish

i krig. (various references)

Turkish

uğraşmak (agonize, attack, be at war with, be occupied in doing, be occupied with doing, come at, contend, cope, deal, endeavor, endeavour, engage in, exert oneself, fight, get at, go in for, grapple, groove, haze, labor, labour, make an effort, mess around with, mess with, moil, monkey around with, monkey with, pick on, push, seek, set to, strive, strive against, struggle, tackle, toil, try hard, tug, tussle, work away, work hard, wrestle), savaş halinde olmak (be at war with), mücâdele etmek (agonize, battle, be at war with, be up against, buffet, combat, compete, crusade, fight, fight a battle, strive, struggle, tussle, war, wrestle). (various references)

Ukrainian

у стани війни. (various references)

belliger, confligere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: wart.

-2 letters: art, awa, rat, raw, tar, taw, twa, war, wat.

-3 letters: aa, ar, at, aw, ta.

+2 letters: antiwar, athwart, awaiter, partway, teaware, tramway, warpath, warrant.

+3 letters: antiwear, awaiters, aweather, eastward, flatware, radwaste, seawater, stairway, stalwart, strawhat, tearaway, teawares, terawatt, thrawart, trackway, trainway, tramways, warcraft, warpaths, warrants, warranty, waterage, waterman, waterway, wheatear, wistaria.

+4 letters: afterward, backwater, bathwater, caterwaul, coastward, drawplate, earthward, eastwards, flatwares, headwater, jackstraw, marrowfat, metalware, radwastes, rainwater, saltwater, seawaters, stairways, stalwarts, swarajist, tableware, tailwater, tearaways, terawatts, throwaway, trackways, trainways, warcrafts, warranted, warrantee, warranter, warrantor, waterages, waterfall, waterleaf, watermark, waterways, wheatears, wistarias.