Word.ws English Dictionary

warray

/ˈwɒɹi/

warray verb: to wage war against.

Verb

warray (third-person singular simple present warrays, present participle warraying, simple past and past participle warrayed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To wage war against.
    • And them long time before, great Nimrod was,
      That first the world with sword and fire warrayd […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of warray

third-person singular presentwarrays
present participlewarraying
past participlewarrayed
pastwarrayed
alternative formwarrey

Origin of warray

From Middle English werreyen, from Old Northern French werreier, from Vulgar Latin *werrizāre.

Questions about warray

What does warray mean?
Warray means to wage war against.
What part of speech is warray?
Warray is a verb.
How do you pronounce warray?
Warray is pronounced /ˈwɒɹi/.
What is the past tense of warray?
The past tense of warray is warrayed.

Words near warray in the dictionary

  1. warraunting
  2. warraunts
  3. Warrawee
  4. Warrawidgee
  5. Warrawong
  6. warray
  7. warrayed
  8. warraying
  9. warrays
  10. Warrayure
  11. Warrazambil Creek

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: warray (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “warray.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/warray. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.