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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of war.

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Examples

  • The government/state/political entity with which we warred is dead.

    Sound Politics: McDermott: Bring Back Baath Party 2007

  • Norrey's tears stopped as if they had been shut off, and her expression warred between doubt and hope.

    The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • As they got closer, they could see that Ronon's expression warred between pleased and nonplussed, and the younger woman was staring up at him with a mysterious smile on her face.

    Wraithbait 2010

  • Passion warred with amusement as I watched her wiggle her toes in the thick carpet.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • Tudor warred with Jacobean led into Baroque until the whole place was a hodgepodge of styles and periods.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Street-survival instinct warred with the gutlevel trust she now oddly possessed.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • We warred fiercely and valiantly, but I now question the honor in all that if it wiped out a village in the process—which many times it did.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • When Mayor Daley announced his retirement, much was made around the city of the possibility of a return to the divisive racial politics of the 1980s, when a white faction on the City Council warred with black mayor Harold Washington.

    Rahm Emanuel Attacked In Anti-Semitic Flier Jen Sabella 2011

  • He once warred on our side hiding the legions of the Light during battles.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • But now, anger warred with contempt and disappointment.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

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