Tug and War

Tug

Tug verb - To cause to follow by applying steady force on.

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War and tug are semantically related In some cases you can use "War" instead a verb "Tug".

War verb - Make or wage war.

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Tug and war are semantically related in fight topic. Sometimes you can use "Tug" instead a verb "War".

Nearby Words: warship, wartime

good	good tug	good war
original	original tug	original war
brutal	brutal tug	brutal war
constant	constant tug	constant war
Other adjectives: massive, huge, personal, last, three-way, interstellar.

Instead, she spent the entire rest of the fight playing tug of war with her water powers and his ice powers, evidently attempting to set up some sort of super attack.

Source: Complexity Addiction
Sakai, in Hina's stead to the point that he accepts the man's challenge to a duel in a tug-of-war match.

Source: Visual Novel / Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi
For decades all of Northern Germany became the rope of a brutal tug of tug of war, and the Hanse members were no different.

Source: Useful Notes / Hanseatic League

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