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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

... A few, very few words told her all. At first Mr. Hamilton's words had been almost inarticulate from the thankfulness that filled his heart. It was long ere Ellen awoke to consciousness. Her slight frame was utterly exhausted by its continued conflict with the mind within, and now that joy had come, that there was no more need for control or sorrow, her extraordinary energy of character for the moment fled, and left her in very truth the weak and loving woman. Before she could restore life to Ellen's inanimate form, Mrs. Hamilton had time ...

— The Mother's Recompense, Volume II. - A Sequel to Home Influence in Two Volumes • Grace Aguilar

... leans against the Adams' fireplace. The Adams' fireplace leans against her. It falls on to her with a tremendous crash.... Lord Gumthorpe comes forward and gazes at the jumbled debris. He is conscious of a sense of despairing conflict—the conflict between contemplative amazement and some natural but well-controlled demand for concrete action. An appalling conviction comes to him that he ought to do something. Under the fallen mess ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914 • Various

... expectation for the other playfellow to arrive, and when the one in ambush sees the other coming he springs toward him, as though he were going to destroy him! And when the two come together, they attempt to seize each other by the necks, as they would do in a real conflict. A wrestle and tussle ensues and when utterly exhausted from this play, the tired dogs, like two fatigued ...

— The Human Side of Animals • Royal Dixon

... the thunder incessant Re-echoed the breadth of the sky. The light-hearted tars of the morning Now gloomily watching the storm Were silent, the glare from the flashes Revealing each weather-beat form, Their airy-built castles all vanished When they heard the wild conflict ahead; Their hopes of the morning were banished, And terror seemed ruling instead. They gazed on the heavens above them And then on the waters beneath, And shrunk as foreboding those billows Might shroud them ere ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

... the truth, until it reached its height, the old man was always against; although, when a quarrel came to its utmost interesting point, I have seen Father Donovan fidget in his cassock, and his eyes sparkle with the glow of battle, although up till then he had done his best to prevent the conflict. ...

— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane

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