Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with war in British Collocation
war
noun
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Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
UK
/wɔː(r)/
fight a war
fight
prosecute
wage
This was a highly effective method of waging war in Afghanistan.
start a war
declare
launch
start
unleash
We need to ask whether it was actually the Prime Minister who declared war on Iraq.
end a war
end
stop
Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo (1815), thus ending the Napoleonic Wars.
avoid a war
avert
avoid
prevent
The two states narrowly averted a full-scale war in Kashmir in 1999.
cause a war
cause
lead to
provoke
spark
trigger
The terrorists are determined to stoke sectarian tension and are attempting to spark a civil war.
crime
drugs
graffiti
hunger
obesity
poverty
terror
terrorism
Political reforms will count for just as much as agricultural innovation in the war on hunger.