germ warfare

1. 1.

   the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon

   Synonymsbacteriological warfare

   Broaderbiological warfare

Questions about germ warfare

What does germ warfare mean?

germ warfare means "the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon".

What is another word for germ warfare?

Close synonyms include bacteriological warfare. 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 germ warfare a common word?

germ 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.