war machine
/ˈwoɹ məˌʃin/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An individual weapon for war, especially a mechanical one such as a siege engine or tank.
noun
The military resources of a belligerent country considered as a whole.
Example Sentences
- "And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; […]"
- "Kobe was a shambles; the slaughter of the cotton operatives by machine-guns became classic as the most terrific execution ever achieved by modern war machines."
- "The German war machine was more powerful than that of the allies at the start of the war."
- "The Covenant war machine continues its march to conquest; even with its head severed it is still dangerous."
- "[…] instead of dismantling the surveillance state and war machine, the Obama administration and Democrats institutionalised it – and it will soon be in the hands of a maniac."
- "From the one million civilians killed in the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–89) to the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who’ve perished at the receiving end of Russia’s and Assad’s war machine, the chain of impunity is long."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwoɹ məˌʃin/
- British English: /ˈwɔː məˌʃiːn/