HOT WAR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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