warray

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/ˈwɒɹi//wəˈɹeɪ/

verb

To wage war against.

OriginMiddle English werreyen ← Old Northern French werreier ← Vulgar Latin *werrizāre →
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Meanings

verbwarray (third-person singular simple present warrays, present participle warraying, simple past and past participle warrayed)

present singular third person warrays · participle present warraying · participle past warrayed · past warrayed · alternative warrey

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo wage war against.

    And them long time before, great Nimrod was, That first the world with sword and fire warrayd […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
war

Origin

  1. Vulgar Latin*werrizāre
  2. Old Northern Frenchwerreier
  3. Middle Englishwerreyen
  4. Englishwarray

From Middle English werreyen, from Old Northern French werreier, from Vulgar Latin *werrizāre.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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