wars in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Star Wars, star wars N Am inf MIL

I.war [Brit wɔː, Am wɔr] N

1. war (armed conflict):

war
guerre f
the horrors of war
les horreurs de la guerre
the day war broke out
le jour où la guerre a éclaté
in the war
à la guerre
between the wars (world wars)
entre les deux guerres
a state of war now exists between our two countries
nos deux pays sont désormais en état de guerre
to win/lose a war
gagner/perdre une guerre
to go off to the war
partir à la guerre
to go to war against country
entrer en guerre contre
to wage war on country
faire la guerre contre
to be at war with a country
être en guerre avec un pays
a war over or about land, independence
une guerre pour
a war over or about issue, problem
une guerre sur
a war over or about attr debts, correspondent, crime, criminal, effort, film, historian, medal, photographer, widow, wound
de guerre
a war over or about cemetery, leader, grave, zone
militaire
a war over or about hero
de la guerre
war deaths
victimes fpl de la guerre
he has a good war record
il a de bons états de service

II.war <pres part warring; pret, pp warred> [Brit wɔː, Am wɔr] VB intr

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III.war [Brit wɔː, Am wɔr]

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wars in the PONS Dictionary

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war no pl, no indef art:

war
guerre f
to be at war
être en guerre
a state of war
un état de guerre
in time of war
en temps de guerre
the horrors of war
les horreurs de la guerre
war atrocities
les atrocités de la guerre
a war hero
un héros de guerre
war breaks out between sb/sth and sb/sth
la guerre éclate entre qn/qc et qn/qc
to declare war on sb/sth a. fig
déclarer la guerre à qn/qc
to go to war
aller en guerre
to wage war against sb/sth
faire la guerre contre qn/qc
to wage war against sb/sth fig
être en guerre contre qn/qc
a war of attrition
une guerre d'usure
price/trade war
guerre des prix/commerciale

internecine war [ɪntəˈni:saɪnˌwɔ:ʳ, Am -t̬ɚˈni:sɪn-] N

wars Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to have been in the wars
revenir du front
a ruinous war for the country
une guerre qui a ruiné le pays
to be in the throes of war
être en pleine guerre
the causal phenomenon of this war
le phénomène à l'origine de cette guerre
the Gallic Wars
les guerres des Gaules
the men who fought in 1914 thought it would be the war to end all wars
les combattants en 1914 croyaient que ce serait la der
to decide to carry on the war
décider la poursuite de la guerre
in the event of a war
dans l'éventualité d'une guerre
to engage in war against a country
entrer en guerre contre un pays
the war filled the camps with refugees
la guerre peupla les camps de réfugiés
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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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It also led to relentless internecine wars whenever two familial lines wound up with goals in conflict.
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Many of her experienced nobles were dead and the economy which had barely begun to recover from the earlier wars was once again in tatters.
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The figure of a one-legged man symbolizes all soldiers who fought in wars.
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In 2008, the ship was transformed into a museum exhibit about the cod wars in the 1950s and 1970s.
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Since the 1980s, the nation has witnessed several wars so music has been suppressed and recording for outsiders minimal.
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Flesh-and-blood wars have become decentralised, soft targets are in vogue, the world is naturally inharmonious.
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Through hunger, pestilence and wars, the population figure was always very low.
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Wary of being drawn into gang wars, he tried to proceed by negotiating agreements between rival crime groups over territory.
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The resort was incorporated in 1909, and the health spa-resort complex flourished with the advent of automobile travel in the years between the.two world wars.
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Many families and friends were split up and large parts of the population deplored the development and the wars.
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