Term: hostilities: fighting; acts of overt warfare
Candidate hypernym: combat: an engagement fought between two military forces → 1
Candidate hypernym: scum: a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid → 0
Candidate hypernym: sternpost: (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel → 0
Candidate hypernym: cypress vine: tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves; naturalized in United States and elsewhere → 0
Candidate hypernym: islam: the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran → 0
Candidate hypernym: change: a thing that is different → 0
Candidate hypernym: experimenter: a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas → 0
Candidate hypernym: mooring: (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place → 0
Candidate hypernym: electronic counter-countermeasures: electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare → 0
Candidate hypernym: limited war: a war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy → 0
Candidate hypernym: toda: the Dravidian language spoken by the Toda in southern India → 0