Offensive and War

Offensive

Offensive noun - The act or action of setting upon with force or violence.

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War and offensive are semantically related In some cases you can use "War" instead a noun "Offensive".

Nearby Words: offend, offence, offensively

War noun - A state of armed violent struggle between states, nations, or groups.

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Offensive and war are semantically related in battle topic. Sometimes you can use "Offensive" instead a noun "War".

Nearby Words: warship, wartime

original	original offensive	original war
entire	entire offensive	entire war
real	real offensive	real war
violent	violent offensive	violent war
Other adjectives: massive, big, huge, little, new, major, political, outright, next, impending, last, all-out, full-scale, defensive, one-man.

Ultimately, "Karbala-5" was the last large offensive operation Iran would undertake in the war.

Source: Useful Notes / IranIraq War
With the failure of Iran's last offensive against al-Basrah, Iraq decided to launch five offensive operations starting in April 1988 to bring the war to a close.

Source: Useful Notes / IranIraq War
However, while the US is the first nation to go on the offensive in the war, they can't do it without Cuban supplies, a hideously amoral but effective South African war plan, Indian battle tactics and an Australian on the ISS.

Source: Literature / World War Z

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