chemical warfare

1. 1.

   warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy

   Synonymschemical operations

   Broaderwar

Questions about chemical warfare

What does chemical warfare mean?

chemical warfare means "warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy".

What is another word for chemical warfare?

Close synonyms include chemical operations. 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 chemical warfare a common word?

chemical warfare 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.