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GO TO WAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does go to war mean?
• GO TO WAR (verb)
The verb GO TO WAR has 1 sense:
1. commence hostilities
Familiarity information: GO TO WAR used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commence hostilities
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
go to war; take arms; take up arms
Hypernyms (to "go to war" is one way to...):
war (make or wage war)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples
He asked me, “what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?”
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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