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war machine

UK/ˈwɔː məˌʃiːn/US/ˈwoɹ məˌʃin/

war machine noun: an individual weapon for war, especially a mechanical one such as a siege engine or tank.

war machine: an individual weapon for war, especially a mechanical one such as a siege engine or tank
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Noun

war machine (plural war machines)

  1. An individual weapon for war, especially a mechanical one such as a siege engine or tank.
    • And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; […]1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Dead London”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book II (The Earth under the Martians), page 282
    • Kobe was a shambles; the slaughter of the cotton operatives by machine-guns became classic as the most terrific execution ever achieved by modern war machines.1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC
  2. The military resources of a belligerent country considered as a whole.
    • The German war machine was more powerful than that of the allies at the start of the war.
    • The Covenant war machine continues its march to conquest; even with its head severed it is still dangerous.2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, published 26 February 2009, Xbox 360, level/area: Assembly

war machine meaning in Urdu

war machine in Urdu

جنگی وسیلے

Examples of war machine in a sentence

  • […] instead of dismantling the surveillance state and war machine, the Obama administration and Democrats institutionalised it – and it will soon be in the hands of a maniac.2016 November 9, Trevor Timm, “Obama has handed a surveillance state and war machine to a maniac”, in The Guardian:
  • Go, Rihanna, go / Watch the fighter jet fly high / War machine gets glamorized2023, “Namesake”, in Sundial, performed by Noname:

Synonyms of war machine

Forms of war machine

pluralwar machines

Origin of war machine

From war + machine.

Questions about war machine

What does war machine mean?
War machine means an individual weapon for war, especially a mechanical one such as a siege engine or tank.
What is war machine in Urdu?
War machine in Urdu is جنگی وسیلے. See War machine meaning in Urdu.
How do you use war machine in a sentence?
[…] instead of dismantling the surveillance state and war machine, the Obama administration and Democrats institutionalised it – and it will soon be in the hands of a maniac.
What part of speech is war machine?
War machine is a noun.
How do you pronounce war machine?
War machine is pronounced /ˈwɔː məˌʃiːn/ (UK).
What is the plural of war machine?
The plural of war machine is war machines.

Words near war machine in the dictionary

  1. war is hell
  2. war leader
  3. war leaders
  4. war lord
  5. war lords
  6. war machine
  7. war machines
  8. war memorial
  9. war memorials
  10. war monger
  11. war mongers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: war machine (page history and authors); war machine (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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