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noun

Clash n.

A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision. "The roll of cannon and clash of arms."

Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. "Clashes between popes and kings."

verb

Clash v. t. To strike noisily against or together.

Clash v. i. (past & past part. clashed; pres. part. clashing)

To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. "However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony."

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Etymology of 'Clash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clash" Quotes from Famous Books

... you can't stay," said Edna, with marked politeness. "We can't do tail-pieces." The two little girls, Hilda and Edna, were just enough alike to clash very often, though Edna was never given to bragging, as Hilda sometimes was, and she was much ...

— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

... begins, with a clearer sense of classical studies, which, however, are likewise looked upon from an anti-Christian standpoint: the Renaissance shows an awakening of honesty in the south, like the Reformation in the north. They could not but clash; for a sincere leaning towards antiquity ...

— We Philologists, Volume 8 (of 18) • Friedrich Nietzsche

... The clash between John's new industrial and social convictions and the class consciousness to which she had been so carefully schooled, with its background of her father's wretched mental condition, the unhappiness of her home and her own repeated failures ...

— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright

... shall die and to the sky Serenely, delicately go, Saint Peter, when he sees you there, Will clash his keys and say: "Now talk to her, Sir Christopher! And hurry, Michelangelo! She wants to play at building, And you've got to ...

— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... battle. He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many persons would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to ...

— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

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