peace vs war
Definitions
noun
- a treaty to cease hostilities
- the absence of mental stress or anxiety
- the general security of public places
- the state prevailing during the absence of war
- harmonious relations; freedom from disputes
Examples
I can say with certainty that a lot of arms shipments have arrived during this peace period.
A letter to his wife in 1847 tells of a visit to the Brights at Rochdale; how 'John and I discorded in our views not a little', and how 'I shook peaceable Brightdom as with
She suffered greatly while she was alive, so let us hope her soul is now at peace.
Definitions
verb
- make or wage war
noun
- the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
- an active struggle between competing entities
- a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
- a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
Examples
The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
For centuries, scholars have squabbled over the design of the ship, which was crucial to defeating the Persians in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., part of a wider war that included the fight at Thermopylae dramatized in the film "300.
