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HOT WAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hot war mean?
• HOT WAR (noun)
The noun HOT WAR has 1 sense:
1. actual fighting between the warring parties
Familiarity information: HOT WAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Actual fighting between the warring parties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hot war" is a kind of...):
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Antonym:
cold war (a state of political hostility between countries using means short of armed warfare)
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