armed struggle

warfare; fighting; hostilities; war, arms, the sword; Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella; bloodshed., appeal to arms, appeal to the sword; ordeal of battle; wager of battle; ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword., battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition; mobilization; state of siege; battlefield (arena); warpath., art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation; generalship; soldiership; military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery; chivalry., gunpowder, shot., battle, tug of war (contention) [more]; service, campaigning, active service, tented field; kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel; fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command; password, watchword; passage d'armes., war to the death, war to the knife; guerre a mort, guerre a outrance; open war, internecine war, civil war.

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., 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.

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., unpacific, unpeaceful; belligerant, combative, armigerous, bellicose, martial, warlike; military, militant; soldierlike, soldierly., chivalrous; strategical, internecine.

flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth; at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet.