warpath
/ˈwɔːpɑːθ/
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American sound/ˈwɔːpɑːθ/
warpath
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- 2 syllables
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war - path -> warpath
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘She told me that my stepfather has been on the warpath since I left.’
- ‘Fed-up residents in Rochdale Road are on the warpath over the state of their pavements.’
- ‘While this might sound eminently sensible compared with the mudbath, it has put Westminster council and the Hyde Park Estate Association on the warpath.’
- ‘This is a good political answer to an often awkward question, and the Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin is a time-served politician once again on the warpath.’
- ‘But the opposition forces were on the warpath even before it was issued.’
- ‘Nat arrived in time for pizza, which we ate in my room because Ewan was still on the warpath.’
- ‘Environmentalists had been on the warpath demanding concrete measures for protecting the river.’
- ‘A Congress stalwart like Jinabai Darji is on the warpath and the Seva Dal chief has resigned.’
- ‘While the European Commission is being cautious, the European Parliament is already on the warpath.’
- ‘The injured Una is on the warpath and the lads charm tactics can't defuse her fury.’
- ‘With no job, no home and very few friends, the ever-resourceful and conniving Mia is secretly on the warpath.’
- ‘Registered clubs have been on the warpath against NSW Labor since the poker machine tax hikes in 1997, and pubs and Star City Casino were allowed to have poker machines.’
- ‘With the Kannada film industry on the warpath, exhibitors and other language industries have decided to take an equally firm stand.’
- ‘Teachers as well as employees are on the warpath demanding pay revision.’
- ‘He is back on the warpath, freshened up and revitalised by his months away from Downing Street.’
- ‘What is more important, protecting the safety of children and their carers, or appeasing angry men on the warpath?’
- ‘Rovers went on the warpath in the first half - streaking to a four-nil lead.’
- ‘Reluctant to go back to Lesvos, where Kostas's mother was on the warpath, they decided to stay in the capital.’
- ‘Farmers go on the warpath upset over their lost crops.’
- ‘Even the most silly distorted fact, tongue-in-cheek headline or top-spinned newspaper tales concerning Hibs put this awkward customer on the warpath.’
Synonyms
abhorrence, aggression, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, bitterness, combativeness, contentiousness, detestation, disaffection, enmity, estrangement, grudge, hatred, hostility, ill will, inimicality, malevolence, malice, meanness, militance, militancy, opposition, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, rancor, resentment, spite, spleen, truculence, truculency, unfriendliness, venom, virulence, war
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