Synonyms for take up arms
take up arms

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1. go to war, take arms, take up armsverb

   commence hostilities

   Synonyms:
   go to war, take arms

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1. take up arms

   Synonyms:
   begin war, commence hostilities

2. take up arms

   Synonyms:
   incur

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1. Woodrow Wilson:

   When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

2. Andrei Grozin:

   These are people who may not be connected in a 'superior-subordinate' relationship with the so-called Caliphate, but people who are mentally linked, who share their point of view and take up arms.

3. Mahmoud Shubat:

   If I stayed Syria, I would have to be part of one party or of ISIS. I'd have to take up arms and kill people. But I don't want that. I only want to take care of my children.

4. Blaise Pascal:

   Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

5. Igor Volsky:

   This administration has repeatedly worked to expand access to guns during a national pandemic and has encouraged folks to take up arms and intimidate their governors into reopening the government.