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clash

[klash]

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verb (used without object)

to make a loud, harsh noise: The gears of the old car clashed and grated.

to come together or collide, especially noisily: The cymbals clashed.

to conflict; disagree: Their stories of the accident clashed completely.

(of juxtaposed colors) to be offensive to the eye.

to engage in a physical conflict or contest, as in a game or a battle (often followed by with): The Yankees clash with the White Sox for the final game of the season.

verb (used with object)

to strike with a resounding or violent collision: He clashed his fist against the heavy door.

to produce (sound) by or as by collision: The tower bell clashed its mournful note.

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noun

a loud, harsh noise, as of a collision: The automobiles collided with a terrible clash.

a collision, especially a noisy one.

10.

a conflict; opposition, especially of views or interests: a clash between nations.

11.

a battle, fight, or skirmish: The clash between the border patrols left three men dead.

Origin:
1490–1500; blend of clap¹ and dash¹

Related forms

clash·er, noun

clash·ing·ly, adverb

in·ter·clash, noun, verb

un·clash·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. clang, crash. 10. disagreement, altercation, dispute. See struggle.

Antonyms
10. agreement, cooperation.

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Example Sentences

There is the inevitable clash between my desire for a permanent academic job and the reality of my bank balance.

It would be easy for even a small clash to get out of hand.

The initial clash brings combatants flying toward a thunderous embrace.

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There is the inevitable clash between my desire for a permanent academic job and the reality of my bank balance.

It would be easy for even a small clash to get out of hand.

The initial clash brings combatants flying toward a thunderous embrace.

And if the warm equatorial winds blow to the south and clash with aloft winds, a tornado will rotate clockwise.

With the advent of the urban farming movement, the culture clash is occasionally going the other way.

Some years, they clash violently with settlers along the way.

Olympus said he was sacked because of a clash of management styles.

It must have been painful as the redheaded gave up after this clash.

There could be a scenario in which polar bear females clash with grizzly males as the females emerge from hibernation.

Developers and environmentalists clash over new rules intended to prepare for the consequences of climate change.

For her, the answer has always been a clash of cultures.

Clash of the clouds:A familiar-sounding industry spat breaks out over standards,.

Sea eagles clash in an aerial dogfight as they fight over food and territory.

Spring fashion shows paraded a clash of patterns, so here's a guide to how to mix your own prints.

Truth and art also clash in my opinion in the opera.

Microsoft would test it to make sure it doesn't clash with any of its software packages.

There's also the clash between saving animals and curing other environmental ills such as global warming.

These two branes clash and then, having filled with radiation, separate and expand to form galaxies and stars.

Here, too, theory could clash with reality as the models of the sub-atomic world built up by physicists are tested.

In reality, it's the clash between warm air and cold air plus vorticity that causes storms.

Politicians who routinely clash were marching in lockstep.

When high legal principles clash with a quite different social reality, the results are inevitably messy.

Beliefs are beliefs, but if they clash with real data, they will remain suspect.

Add the often jarring clash of politics, personalities.

Ethical dilemmas invariably consist of the clash of one group's needs versus another's.

Another risk is one that often presents itself in mergers, especially those involving creative types: a clash of cultures.

The ironic clash of high price and cheap subject matter couldn't be louder.

But the clash between the two men is more than a bilateral scrap.

Whatever form it takes, such integration is bound to clash with national democracies:.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

clash (klæʃ)

—vb
1.	to make or cause to make a loud harsh sound, esp by striking together
2.	(intr) to be incompatible; conflict
3.	(intr) to engage together in conflict or contest
4.	(intr) (of dates or events) to coincide
5.	(intr) (of colours) to look ugly or inharmonious together

—n
6.	a loud harsh noise
7.	a collision or conflict
8.	(Scot) gossip; tattle

[C16: of imitative origin]

'clasher

—n

'clashingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

clash

c.1500, of imitative origin; the figurative sense is first attested 1622. Of colors, "to go badly together," first recorded 1894.

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