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Conflict   /kˈɑnflɪkt/  /kənflˈɪkt/   Listen
Conflict

noun
1.
An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).  Synonyms: battle, struggle.  "Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
2.
Opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings.
3.
A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war.  Synonyms: battle, engagement, fight.  "He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
4.
A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests.  "A conflict of loyalties"
5.
An incompatibility of dates or events.
6.
Opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot).
7.
A disagreement or argument about something important.  Synonyms: difference, difference of opinion, dispute.  "There were irreconcilable differences" , "The familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
verb
(past & past part. conflicted; pres. part. conflicting)
1.
Be in conflict.
2.
Go against, as of rules and laws.  Synonyms: contravene, infringe, run afoul.  "This behavior conflicts with our rules"



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"Conflict" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, remains to identify the resting-place of the great Sir James. The effigy, of dark stone, is crossed-legged, marking his character as one who had died after performing the pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, and in actual conflict with the infidels of Spain; and the introduction of the HEART, adopted as an addition to the old arms of Douglas, in consequence of the knight's fulfilment of Bruce's dying injunction, appears, when taken in ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... trading steamers, and made their way by small boat or bullock hackery to the Cadjan City. These fellows have few equals as divers, but the administrative officers of the camp always fear that they will come into conflict with the police or launch a war in the name of Mohammed against the Hindus or Cingalese. Consequently, only a limited number are allowed to ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield
... But all the dread conflict is o'er; Lo! cloud after cloud rolls away; And heaven, serene as before, Breaks forth in the splendour of day! And all the sweet landscape around, Emerged from the ocean of night, With groves, woods, and villages crowned, Astonish and fill ...
— Cottage Poems • Patrick Bronte
... that he had never regarded the matter in that light before," she went on gaily, encouraged by my laughter, "but he braced himself for the conflict, and said 'I wonder that you didn't stay a little longer while you were about it. Milton and Ben Jonson were still alive; Bacon's Novum Organum was just coming out; and in thirty or forty years you could have had L'Allegro, ...
— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... now face is the threat of a class conflict. If capitalism insists upon the policy of outraging the saving aspiration of the American workman to raise his standard of comfort and leisure, every element of class conflict will strengthen ...
— War of the Classes • Jack London


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