CHEMICAL WARFARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemical warfare mean? 

• CHEMICAL WARFARE (noun)
  The noun CHEMICAL WARFARE has 1 sense:

1. warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy

  Familiarity information: CHEMICAL WARFARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMICAL WARFARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chemical operations; chemical warfare

Hypernyms ("chemical warfare" is a kind of...):

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

 Context examples 

Mustard gas is a vesicant that was first used in chemical warfare in World War I, but is now only used in small amounts in research studies involving alkylating agents.

(Mustard Gas, NCI Thesaurus)

A sulfur mustard vesicant that had application in chemical warfare, treatment of psoriasis and has been studied as an alkylating agent in cancer therapy.

(Bischloroethylsulfide, NCI Thesaurus)