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edit-war

edit-war is the alternative form of edit war.

Meaning of edit war

Verb

edit war (third-person singular simple present edit wars, present participle edit warring, simple past and past participle edit warred)

  1. (intransitive, wiki jargon) To engage in an edit war.
    • When a dispute arises, it is common to see a page protected to avoid edit warring.

See all 2 meanings of edit war

Forms of edit-war

third-person singular presentedit-wars
present participleedit-warring
past participleedit-warred
pastedit-warred

Questions about edit-war

What is edit-war the alternative form of?
Edit-war is the alternative form of edit war.

Words near edit-war in the dictionary

  1. edit warrior
  2. edit warriors
  3. edit wars
  4. edit-a-thon
  5. edit-a-thons
  6. edit-war
  7. edit-warred
  8. edit-warring
  9. edit-wars
  10. edit.
  11. editability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: edit-war (page history and authors); edit war (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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