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Meanings of state of war in English

Portuguese
estado de guerra
Catalan
guerra
Spanish
estado de guerra
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A legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply.

      estado de guerra
      Usage of state of war in English
      1
      All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.
      Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
      2
      But that state of war was useful in other ways, as well.
      War Of Honor
      3
      Beauty is a state of war, a frigid blank zone under siege.
      Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
      4
      With lightning speed the President declared that a state of war existed.
      Jailed for Freedom
      5
      The first collision was sure to mean an active state of war.
      History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's...
      6
      Mr. President, the honorable Senator says there is a state of war.
      American Eloquence, Volume 4 / Studies In American Political His...
      7
      Consequently we go prepared as though there were a state of war.
      Dick Hamilton's Airship; Or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds
      8
      The announcement seemed to avert the declaration today of a state of war.
      The Irish Times
      9
      Lebanon and Israel are still in a formal state of war.
      Reuters
      10
      And our nations are not, at the moment, in a state of war.
      Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
      11
      We are in a state of war and war will escalate.
      The Irish Times
      12
      Azerbaijan is officially in a state of war with neighbouring Armenia.
      Reuters
      13
      But the North and South are already practically in a state of war.
      Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
      14
      Now we are in a state of war which will yield to nothing.
      Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
      15
      A state of war was apparently regarded as usual in Egypt.
      The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
      16
      Kovno has been declared to be in a state of war.
      Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised)
      Translations for state of war