Strife
Strife noun - A lack of agreement or harmony.
Usage example: in order to avoid family strife, the children spend equal time during the holidays with both of their grandmothers
Warfare
Warfare noun - A lack of agreement or harmony.
Usage example: that troubled household seems to be almost constantly in a state of warfare
Strife is a synonym for warfare in conflict topic. You can use "Strife" instead a noun "Warfare", if it concerns topics such as armed conflict.
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How words are described
| human | human strife | human warfare |
| original | original strife | original warfare |
| endless | endless strife | endless warfare |
| continuous | continuous strife | continuous warfare |
| Other adjectives: real, perpetual, constant, violent, serious, civil, internal, religious, political, bloody, pointless, international, racial, economic, tribal, global, ongoing. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Its deserts grow year after year, and the various kiithid are locked in constant strife and warfare.
- Humanity's constant strife and warfare has made it so "perfidious" and battle-ready that we continually take the technologically advanced but strategically stagnant alien invaders by surprise with our double-dealing and resourcefulness.
Source: Violence Really Is the Answer - In Dragon Ball Super Episode 28 it's revealed this was the fate of Earth in the Sixth Universe as the whole planet was rendered uninhabitable by strife and petty warfare.
Source: Apocalypse How / Class 6
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