War machine

//ˈwoɹ məˌʃin// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An individual weapon for war, especially a mechanical one such as a siege engine or tank.

    "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; […]"

  2. 2
    the military forces of a nation wordnet
  3. 3
    The military resources of a belligerent country considered as a whole.

    "The German war machine was more powerful than that of the allies at the start of the war."

Etymology

From war + machine.

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