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hostilities
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 hostilities
Fighting; acts of overt warfare:
— The outbreak of hostilities.
synoniem: belligerency.
Roget 722:
warfare;
fighting
etc.
v.;
hostilities;
war,
arms,
the sword;
Mars,
Bellona,
grim visaged war,
horrida bella [Lat.];
bloodshed.
appeal to arms,
appeal to the sword;
ordeal of battle;
wager of battle;
ultima ratio regum [Lat.],
arbitrament of the sword.
battle array,
campaign,
crusade,
expedition,
operations;
mobilization;
state of siege;
battlefield,
theater of operations
etc.
(arena)
728;
warpath.
art of war,
tactics,
strategy,
castrametation†;
generalship;
soldiership;
logistics;
military evolutions,
ballistics,
gunnery;
chivalry.
gunpowder,
shot.
battle,
tug of war
etc.
(contention)
720;
service,
campaigning,
active service,
tented field;
kriegspiel [G.],
Kriegsspiel [G.];
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 [Fr.].
war to the death,
war to the knife;
guerre a mort [Fr.],
guerre a outrance [Fr.];
open war,
internecine war,
civil war.
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