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wartorn

wartorn is the alternative form of war-torn.

Meaning of war-torn

Adjective

war-torn (comparative more war-torn, superlative most war-torn)

  1. Extensively damaged as a result of war.
    • The new government also had big plans for rejuvenating Britain's war-torn economy.2021 August 11, Richard Foster, “A century of railway politics”, in RAIL, number 937, page 42
    Synonyms:
    war-ravaged

Forms of wartorn

comparativemore wartorn
superlativemost wartorn

Questions about wartorn

What is wartorn the alternative form of?
Wartorn is the alternative form of war-torn.

Words near wartorn in the dictionary

  1. Wartman
  2. Wartmans
  3. Wartofsky
  4. Warton
  5. Wartook
  6. wartorn
  7. wartpox
  8. warts
  9. warts and all
  10. warts-and-all
  11. wartsome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wartorn (page history and authors); war-torn (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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