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HOT WAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Actual fighting between the warring parties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hot war" is a kind of...):
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Antonym:
cold war (a state of political hostility between countries using means short of armed warfare)
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