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#719. Resistance. -- N. resistance

• stand

• front

• opposition

• renitency;

• kicking

• repulse

• rebuff

• insurrection

• strike

• turn out

• lock out

• barring out

• Jacquerie

• riot

• V. resist

• not submit

• reluct

• withstand

• stand up against

• strive against

• bear up under

• bear up

• against

• be proof against

• make head against

• stand

• stand firm

• stand

• one's ground

• stand the brunt of

• stand out

• hold one's grounds

• hold one's

• own

• hold out

• hold firm

• breast the wave

• breast the current

• stem the tide

• stem the torrent;

• face

• confront

• grapple with

• show a bold front

• present

• a front

• make a stand

• take one's stand

• kick

• kick against

• kick against the pricks;

• oppose

• fly in the face of

• lift the hand against

• rise up in arms

• strike

• turn out

• draw up a round robin

• (remonstrate)

• revolt

• make a riot

• sell one's life dearly

• die hard

• keep at bay

• repel

• repulse

• Adj. resisting

• resistive

• resistant

• refractory

• (disobedient)

• recalcitrant

• renitent

• up in arms

• repulsive

• repellant

• proof against

• unconquerable

• stubborn

• unconquered;

• indomitable

• unyielding

• Int. hands off! keep off!

#720. Contention. -- N. contention

• strife

• contest

• struggle

• belligerency

• opposition

• controversy

• polemics

• debate

• war of words

• litigation

• paper war

• high words

• sparring

• competition

• rivalry

• agonism|

• match

• race

• horse racing

• heat

• steeple chase

• handicap;

• regatta

• field day

• sham fight

• Derby day

• turf

• sporting

• bullfight

• boat race

• wrestling

• greco-roman wrestling

• pugilism

• boxing

• fisticuffs

• the

• manly art of self-defense

• spar

• mill

• set-to

• round

• bout

• event

• prize

• fighting

• quarterstaff

• single stick

• gymnastics;

• jiujitsu

• jujutsu

• sumo

• athletics

• athletic sports

• games

• of skill

• fracas

• clash of arms

• tussle

• scuffle

• broil

• fray

• affray

• affrayment|

• velitation|

• colluctation|

• brigue|

• scramble

• melee

• scrimmage

• free fight

• stand up fight

• hand to hand

• running fight

• conflict

• skirmish

• encounter

• collision

• affair

• brush

• fight

• battle

• battle royal

• combat

• action

• engagement

• joust

• tournament

• tilt

• tilting [medieval times];

• list

• pitched battle

• death struggle

• struggle for life or death

• life or death struggle

• hard knocks

• sharp contest

• tug of war

• naval engagement

• sea fight

• duel

• duello[It]

• single combat

• satisfaction

• passage of arms

• affair of honor

• triangular duel;

• hostile meeting

• deeds of arms

• feats of arms

• appeal

• to arms

• pugnacity

• combativeness

• bone of contention

• V. contend

• contest

• strive

• struggle

• scramble

• wrestle

• spar

• square

• exchange blows

• exchange fisticuffs

• fib|!

• tussle

• tilt

• box

• stave

• fence

• skirmish

• fight

• wrangle

• contend

• grapple with

• engage with

• close with

• buckle with

• bandy with

• try conclusions with

• have a brush

• tilt with;

• encounter

• fall foul of

• pitch into

• run a tilt at;

• oppose

• reluct

• join issue

• come to blows

• go to loggerheads

• set to

• come to the

• scratch

• exchange shots

• measure swords

• meet hand to hand

• take up the

• cudgels

• take up the glove

• take up the gauntlet

• enter the lists

• couch

• one's lance

• give satisfaction

• appeal to arms

• lay about one

• break the peace

• compete with

• cope with

• vie with

• race with

• emulate

• rival

• run a race

• contend

• stipulate for

• stickle for

• insist

• upon

• make a point of

• Adj. contending

• together by the ears

• at loggerheads at war at

• issue

• competitive

• rival

• belligerent

• contentious

• combative

• bellicose

• warlike

• quarrelsome

• pugnacious;

• pugilistic

• gladiatorial

• Phr. a verbis ad verbera[Lat]

• a word and a blow

• "a very pretty

• quarrel as it stands" [Sheridan]

• commune periculum concordiam parit[Lat];

• lis litem generat[Lat]

#721. Peace. -- N. peace

• amity

• harmony

• (concord) 7

• tranquility

• calm

• truce

• peace treaty

• accord

• peace pipe

• pipe of peace

• calumet of peace

• piping time of peace

• quiet life

• neutrality

• [symbol of peace] dove of peace

• white dove

• [person who favors peace] dove

• pax Romana[Lat]

• V. be at peace

• keep the peace

• make peace

• Adj. pacific

• peaceable

• peaceful

• calm

• tranquil

• untroubled

• halcyon

• bloodless

• neutral

• dovish

• Phr. the storm blown over

• the lion lies down with the lamb

• "all

• quiet on the Potomac"

• paritur pax bello [Lat][Nepos]

• "peace hath her

• victories no less renowned than war" [Milton]

• "they make a desert and they

• call it peace"

#722. Warfare. -- N. warfare

• fighting

• hostilities

• war

• arms

• the sword

• Mars

• Bellona

• grim visaged war

• horrida bella[Lat]

• bloodshed

• appeal to arms

• appeal to the sword

• ordeal of battle

• wager of

• battle

• ultima ratio regum[Lat]

• arbitrament of the sword

• battle array

• campaign

• crusade

• expedition

• operations

• mobilization;

• state of siege

• battlefield

• theater of operations

• warpath

• art of war

• tactics

• strategy

• generalship;

• soldiership

• logistics

• military evolutions

• ballistics

• gunnery

• chivalry

• gunpowder

• shot

• battle

• tug of war

• service

• campaigning

• active

• service

• tented field

• kriegspiel[Ger]

• Kriegsspiel[Ger]

• fire cross

• trumpet

• clarion

• bugle

• slogan

• war-cry

• war-whoop

• battle

• cry

• beat of drum

• rappel

• tom-tom

• calumet of war

• word of command;

• password

• watchword

• war to the death

• war to the knife

• guerre a

• open war

• internecine war

• civil war

• V. arm

• raise troops

• mobilize troops

• raise up in arms

• take up the

• cudgels

• take up arms

• fly to arms

• appeal to arms

• fly to the

• sword

• draw the sword

• unsheathe the sword

• dig up the hatchet

• dig up the

• tomahawk

• go to war

• wage war

• 'let slip the dogs of war' [Julius Caesar];

• cry havoc

• kindle the torch of war

• light the torch of war

• raise one's

• banner

• raise the fire cross

• hoist the black flag

• throw away

• fling away

• the scabbard

• enroll

• enlist

• take the field

• take the law into one's own

• hands

• do battle

• give battle

• join battle

• engage in battle

• go to battle;

• flesh one's sword

• set to

• fall to

• engage

• measure swords with

• draw the

• trigger

• cross swords

• come to blows

• come to close quarters

• fight;

• combat

• contend

• battle with

• break a lance with

• [pirates engage in battle] raise the jolly roger

• run up the jolly

• roger

• serve

• see service

• be on service

• be on active service

• campaign;

• wield the sword

• shoulder a musket

• smell powder

• be under fire

• spill

• blood

• imbrue the hands in blood

• on the warpath

• carry on war

• carry on hostilities

• keep the field

• fight the good

• fight

• fight it out

• fight like devils

• fight one's way

• fight hand to

• hand

• sell one's life dearly

• pay the ferryman's fee

• Adj. contending

• contentious

• armed

• armed to the teeth

• armed

• cap-a-pie

• sword in hand

• in arms

• under arms

• up in arms

• at war with;

• bristling with arms

• in battle array

• in open arms

• in the field;

• embattled

• battled

• belligerent

• combative

• bellicose

• martial

• warlike

• military

• militant

• soldier-

• like

• soldierly

• chivalrous

• strategical

• internecine

• Adv. flagrante bello[Lat]

• in the thick of the fray

• in the cannon's

• mouth

• at the sword's point

• at the point of the bayonet

• Int. vae victis[Lat]! to arms! to your tents O Israel!

• Phr. the battle rages

• bis peccare

• jus gladii[Lat]

• "my voice is still for war"

• [Addison]

• "'tis well that war is so terrible

• otherwise we might grow fond

• of it" [Robert E. Lee]

• "my sentence is for open war" [Milton]

• "pride

• pomp

• and circumstance of glorious war" [Othello]

• "the cannons have their

• bowels full of wrath" [King John]

• "the cannons . . .spit forth their iron

• indignation" [King John]

• "the fire-eyed maid of smoky war" [Henry IV];

• silent leges inter arma [Lat][Cicero]

• si vis pacem para bellum[Lat]

#723. Pacification. -- N. pacification

• conciliation

• reconciliation

• reconcilement

• shaking of hands

• accommodation

• arrangement

• adjustment;

• terms

• compromise

• amnesty

• deed of release

• peace offering

• olive branch

• calumet of peace

• preliminaries of

• peace

• truce

• armistice

• suspension of arms

• suspension of hostilities

• stand-down

• breathing time

• convention

• modus vivendi[Lat]

• flag of truce

• white flag

• cartel|!

• hollow truce

• pax in bello[Lat]

• drawn battle

• V. pacify

• tranquilize

• compose

• allay

• reconcile

• propitiate

• placate

• conciliate

• meet halfway

• hold out the olive branch

• heal the breach

• make peace

• restore harmony

• bring to terms

• settle matters

• arrange matters

• accommodate matters

• accommodate

• differences

• set straight

• make up a quarrel

• tantas componere lites[Lat];

• come to an understanding

• come to terms

• bridge over

• hush up

• make it

• make matters up

• shake hands

• mend one's fences [U.S.]

• raise a siege

• lift a siege

• put up the sword

• sheathe the sword

• bury

• the hatchet

• lay down one's arms

• turn swords into plowshares

• smoke the

• calumet of peace

• close the temple of Janus

• keep the peace

• 7

• be pacified

• come round

• Adj. conciliatory

• composing

• pacified

• Phr. requiescat in pace[Lat]

#724. Mediation. -- N. mediation

• intervention

• interposition

• interference

• intermeddling

• intercession

• arbitration

• flag of truce

• good

• offices

• peace offering;

• parley

• negotiation

• diplomacy

• compromise

• [person who mediates] mediator

• arbitrator

• intercessor

• peacemaker

• negotiator

• go-between

• diplomatist

• moderator

• propitiator

• umpire

• V. mediate

• intercede

• interpose

• interfere

• intervene

• step in

• negotiate

• meet halfway

• arbitrate

• magnas componere

• lites[Lat]

• bargain

• Adj. mediatory

#725. Submission. -- N. submission

• yielding

• nonresistance

• obedience

• surrender

• cession

• capitulation

• resignation

• obeisance

• homage

• kneeling

• courtesy

• curtsy

• kowtow

• prostration

• V. succumb

• submit

• yeild

• bend

• resign

• defer to

• lay down one's arms

• deliver up one's arms

• lower colors

• haul down

• colors

• strike one's flag

• strike colors

• surrender

• surrender at discretion

• cede

• capitulate

• come to terms

• retreat

• beat a retreat

• draw in one's horns

• give way

• give round

• give in

• give up

• cave in

• suffer judgment by default

• bend

• bend to one's yoke

• bend before the storm

• reel back

• bend down

• knuckle

• down

• knuckle to

• knuckle under

• knock under

• eat dirt

• eat the leek

• eat humble pie

• bite the dust

• lick the dust;

• be at one's feet

• fall at one's feet

• craven

• crouch before

• throw oneself

• at the feet of

• swallow the leek

• swallow the pill

• kiss the rod

• turn the

• other cheek

• gulp down

• obey

• kneel to

• bow to

• pay homage to

• cringe to

• truckle to;

• bend the neck

• bend the knee

• kneel

• fall on one's knees

• bow submission

• courtesy

• curtsy

• kowtow

• pocket the affront

• make the best of

• make a virtue of necessity

• grin

• and abide

• grin and bear it

• shrug the shoulders

• resign oneself

• submit

• with a good grace

• Adj. surrendering

• submissive

• resigned

• crouching;

• downtrodden

• down on one's marrow bones

• on one's bended knee

• unresistant

• unresisting

• nonresisting

• pliant

• undefended

• untenable

• indefensible

• humble

• Phr. have it your own way

• it can't be helped

• amen

• da locum melioribus[Lat]

• tempori parendum[Lat]