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conflict
[ verb kuhn-flikt; noun kon-flikt ]
verb (used without object)
- to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash:
The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- to fight or contend; do battle.
noun
- a fight, battle, or struggle, especially a prolonged struggle; strife.
- controversy; quarrel:
conflicts between parties.
Antonyms: accord
- discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles:
a conflict of ideas.
Synonyms: opposition, contention
- a striking together; collision.
- incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event, or activity with another:
a conflict in the schedule.
- Psychiatry. a mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses.
conflict
noun
- a struggle or clash between opposing forces; battle
- a state of opposition between ideas, interests, etc; disagreement or controversy
- a clash, as between two appointments made for the same time
- psychol opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible wishes or drives, sometimes leading to a state of emotional tension and thought to be responsible for neuroses
verb
- to come into opposition; clash
- to fight
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Derived Forms
- conˈfliction, noun
- conˈflictive, adjective
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Other Words From
- con·flic·tion noun
- con·flic·tive con·flic·to·ry [k, uh, n-, flik, -t, uh, -ree], adjective
- non·con·flic·tive adjective
- pre·con·flict verb (used without object)
- pre·con·flict noun
- self-con·flict noun
- un·con·flic·tive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of conflict1
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Example Sentences
In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
Their claims have led to both academic controversy and localized conflict.
The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead.
World War II is still a long way off, but the seeds of conflict are already being sown on the continent.
So here we are with Abbas being the only one of three parties to this conflict still fighting for a two-state solution.
He must trust to his human merits, and not miracles, for his Sonship is of no value in this conflict.
The conflict in Tom's puzzled heart sharpened that evening into dreadful edges that cut him mercilessly whichever way he turned.
In her he felt again, more distinctly than before, another person—division, conflict.
The conflict of these certainties left hopeless disorder in every corner of his being.
Battle of Surcoign; British defeated by the French after a sanguinary conflict.
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