Martial contest, combat, fight, battle, war.

Strife, contention, conflict; tumult, disturbance, agitation. Obsolete.

The use of arms; warfare, fighting, active hostilities; = arms, n. 3b Cf. to take up (also take, rise up in) armour at phrases 1. Obsolete.

(Without article or plural): Fighting, actual hostilities, conflict between enemies, war.

War, battle. Cf. cock, v.1 1.

A fight, a skirmish.

The action of a combatant, combat, fighting.

The state or fact of being hostile; hostile action exercised by one community, state, or power against another; esp. such as involves war.

Combatant state, hostility.

(without article or plural) Fighting, contending with arms, martial strife.

political conflict in which both sides are armed with weapons; an instance of this.