War vs. Chaos

Warnoun

(uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.

‘The war was largely between Sunni and Shia militants.’;

Chaosnoun

(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.

Warnoun

(countable) A particular conflict of this kind.

Chaosnoun

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony

Warnoun

Any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.

‘You look like you've been through the wars.’;

Chaosnoun

Any state of disorder, any confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

‘Disorder conveys chaos and makes one feel that no one is in charge. ― Max Roscoe, "How Your City Is Killing You With Ugliness"’;

Warnoun

(figuratively) A campaign against something.

‘The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs.’; ‘The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime.’; ‘In the US, conservatives rail against the "war on Christmas".’;

Chaosnoun

A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

Warnoun

A bout of fierce competition in trade.

‘I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war, getting my car for far less than it's worth.’; ‘The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war, each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.’;

Chaosnoun

(mathematics) Behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.

Warnoun

Instruments of war.

Chaosnoun

(fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.

Warnoun

(obsolete) Armed forces.

Chaosnoun

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

‘Between us and there is fixed a great chaos.’;

Warnoun

(uncountable) A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.

Chaosnoun

The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.

Warverb

(intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).

Chaosnoun

Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

Warverb

To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

Chaosnoun

a state of extreme confusion and disorder

Waradjective

Ware; aware.

Chaosnoun

the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos

Warnoun

A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.

‘Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed.’;

Chaosnoun

(Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe

Warnoun

A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.

Chaosnoun

(physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions

Warnoun

Instruments of war.

‘His complement of stores, and total war.’;

Chaosnoun

complete disorder and confusion

‘snow caused chaos in the region’;

Warnoun

Forces; army.

‘On their embattled ranks the waves return,And overwhelm their war.’;

Chaosnoun

the property of a complex system whose behaviour is so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions.

Warnoun

The profession of arms; the art of war.

‘Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth.’;

Chaosnoun

the formless matter supposed to have existed before the creation of the universe.

Warnoun

a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.

‘The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.’;

Chaosnoun

the first created being, from which came the primeval deities Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus, and Nyx.

Warverb

To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.

‘Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it.’; ‘Why should I war without the walls of Troy?’; ‘Our countrymen were warring on that day!’;

Warverb

To contend; to strive violently; to fight.

Warverb

To make war upon; to fight.

‘To war the Scot, and borders to defend.’;

Warverb

To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

‘That thou . . . mightest war a good warfare.’;

Warnoun

the waging of armed conflict against an enemy;

‘thousands of people were killed in the war’;

Warnoun

a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply;

‘war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring’;

Warnoun

an active struggle between competing entities;

‘a price war’; ‘a war of wits’; ‘diplomatic warfare’;

Warnoun

a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious;

‘the war on poverty’; ‘the war against crime’;

Warverb

make or wage war

War

War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces.