War machine
/ˈwoɹ məˌʃin/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 the military forces of a nation wordnet
- 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."
Example
More examples"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; […]"
Etymology
From war + machine.