MEXICAN WAR Synonyms

• an engagement fought between two military forces

• the act of fighting; any contest or struggle

• battle or contend against in or as if in a battle

• an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

• opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests

• an incompatibility of dates or events

• opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)

• a disagreement or argument about something important

• be in conflict

• go against, as of rules and laws

• fighting; acts of overt warfare

• a minor short-term fight

• engage in a skirmish

• the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

• a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply

• an active struggle between competing entities

• a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious

• make or wage war

• after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000