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/kˈɑnflɪkt/ /kənflˈɪkt/ Listen

noun

Conflict n.

1.

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

2.

A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting. "As soon as he (Atterbury) was himself again, he became eager for action and conflict." "An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces."

Conflict of laws, that branch of jurisprudence which deals with individual litigation claimed to be subject to the conflicting laws of two or more states or nations; often used as synonymous with Private international law.

Synonyms: Contest; collision; struggle; combat; strife; contention; battle; fight; encounter. See Contest.

verb

Conflict v. i. (past & past part. conflicted; pres. part. conflicting)

1.

To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide. "Fire and water conflicting together."

2.

To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle. "A man would be content to... conflict with great difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward."

3.

To be in opposition; to be contradictory. "The laws of the United States and of the individual States may, in some cases, conflict with each other."

Synonyms: To fight; contend; contest; resist; struggle; combat; strive; battle.

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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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