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How to pronounce martial in English?

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Synonyms soldierlike, soldierly, warriorlike
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Synonyms warlike
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martial law.
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He has been held in custody in a military prison and could face a court-martial.
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When Randy Couture first started in mixed martial arts, he had hair on his head.
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It took a year for Foster's commanding officer to sign off on the court-martial.
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Authorities didn't pursue a court-martial against West, but he was fined $5,000.
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So now the birthers consider the court-martial part of the dastardly conspiracy.
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Guymon has come full circle in life and in his career as a mixed martial artist.
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Fractures and dislocations are common in mixed martial arts and boxing, he said.
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In a court-martial, the SEALs can make their case to the judge and to the world.
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Six other soldiers also faced the court martial, but were cleared in March 2007.
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  • Roman poet noted for epigrams (first century BC)
  • Soldierly: (of persons) befitting a warrior; "a military bearing"
  • Warlike: suggesting war or military life
  • Martial(a): of or relating to the armed forces; "martial law"
  • Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March 1, between 38 and 41 AD - between 102 and 104 AD), was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors ...
  • Martial was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1960 British Classic, the 2,000 Guineas Stakes. He was out of the mare Discipliner and sired by the 1952 Kentucky Derby winner, Hill Gail. ...
  • Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike; Relating to or connected with the armed forces or the profession of arms or military life; Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly, soldierlike, warriorlike
  • A male given name narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names); Anglicized cognomen or given name of the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, born in Spain in the first century AD and noted for his epigrams
  • (martiality) suitability for war, likelihood of success in war, tendancy to wage war