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warfaring

warfaring is the present participle and gerund of warfare.

Meaning of warfare

Verb

warfare (third-person singular simple present warfares, present participle warfaring, simple past and past participle warfared)

  1. To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

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Noun

warfaring (plural warfarings)

  1. warfare; conflict
    • To the extent that physical warfarings go out of fashion, warfarings of the spirit must take their place. Else deadness and not liveness is the terminus ahead.1914, Bouck White, The Carpenter and the Rich Man, page 133

Forms of warfaring

pluralwarfarings

Questions about warfaring

What does warfaring mean?
Warfaring means warfare; conflict.
What is warfaring the present participle and gerund of?
Warfaring is the present participle and gerund of warfare.
What part of speech is warfaring?
Warfaring is a noun.
What is the plural of warfaring?
The plural of warfaring is warfarings.

Words near warfaring in the dictionary

  1. warfared
  2. warfarer
  3. warfarers
  4. warfares
  5. warfarin
  6. warfaring
  7. warfarings
  8. warfarinisation
  9. warfarinise
  10. warfarinised
  11. warfarinising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: warfaring (page history and authors); warfare (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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