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Questions about bw

What does bw mean?

bw means "the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food".

How many syllables are in bw?

bw has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bw?

Close synonyms include biological warfare, biological attack, biologic attack, bioattack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bw a common word?

bw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.