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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attempt to win political election |
| Synonyms: | agitate, barnstorm, canvass, contend for, contest, crusade, electioneer, go to grass roots, hit the trail, lobby, mend fences, muckrake, mudsling, politick, press the flesh, ring doorbells, run, run for, shake hands and kiss babies, solicit votes, stand for, stump, tour, whistle-stop |
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| Main Entry: | warfare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | armed conflict |
| Synonyms: | armed struggle, arms, battle, blows, campaigning, clash, combat, competition, contest, counterinsurgency, discord, emulation, fighting, hostilities, military operation, passage of arms, rivalry, strategy, strife, striving, struggle, tug-of-war, war |
| Antonyms: | harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | whistle-stop tour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grassroots campaign |
| Synonyms: | campaign trail, campaigning, candidature, canvassing, door-to-door, politicking, stump, stump excursion, stumping, stumping tour |
| Main Entry: | canvass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | poll; discuss issues |
| Synonyms: | agitate, analyze, apply, argue, campaign, check, check over, consult, debate, dispute, electioneer, examine, inspect, investigate, review, run, scan, scrutinize, sift, solicit, study, survey, ventilate |
| Notes: | canvas is the noun (fabric etc.) and canvass is generally a verb (to solicit, question) - though a canvass can be an examination of pros and cons |
| Main Entry: | barnstorm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tour |
| Synonyms: | campaign, canvass, go on tour, travel, troupe |
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| Concept: | Warfare. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-nouns
warfare; fighting; hostilities; war, arms, the sword; Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella; bloodshed., appeal to arms, appeal to the sword; ordeal of battle; wager of battle; ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword., battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition; mobilization; state of siege; battlefield (arena); warpath., art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation; generalship; soldiership; military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery; chivalry., gunpowder, shot., battle, tug of war (contention) [more]; service, campaigning, active service, tented field; kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel; fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command; password, watchword; passage d'armes., war to the death, war to the knife; guerre a mort, guerre a outrance; open war, internecine war, civil war.
-verbs
arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, "let slip the dogs of war" [Julius Caesar]; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with., serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign; wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood; on the warpath., carry on war, carry on hostilities; keep the field; fight the good fight; fight it out, fight like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to hand; sell one's life dearly.
-adjectives
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., unpacific, unpeaceful; belligerant, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike; military, militant; soldierlike, soldierly., chivalrous; strategical, internecine.
-adverbs
flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth; at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet.
-phrases
the battle rages; a la guerre comme a la guerre; bis peccare in bello non licet; jus gladii; "my voice is still for war" [Addison]; "'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it" [Robert E. Lee]; "my sentence is for open war" [Milton]; "pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war" [Othello]; "the cannons have their bowels full of wrath" [King John]; "the cannons . . .spit forth their iron indignation" [King John]; "the fire-eyed maid of smoky war" [Henry IV]; silent
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| Antonyms: | peace |
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