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Synonyms for warring

The synonym for warring recorded in this bank is militant, in the sense "engaged in war". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for warring

militantadjective, in the sense "engaged in war"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and warring carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineActions

engaged in war

The warring nations finally agreed to peace talks.

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The true synonym

militant

Same sentence, swapped: The militant nations finally agreed to peace talks.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where warring stands in the sentence above.

jangling
conflicting
grating

Where warring turns up in the game

warring is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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