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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conflict" Quotes from Famous Books

... ministry upon paltry topics, which had neither root or stem, he had declared himself emphatically and repeatedly upon their side on the only subject on which their fate and the destiny of the nation altogether depended—the controversy with America. The course he took in the early stage of that conflict, and his disappearance from the theatre of politics at the time when it was ripening into the magnitude of its nature, have marked Junius in my mind as a man of small things—a splendid trifler, ...

— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy

... quantity, and in every other respect, as if the acid employed had not been previously saturated with magnesia, but offered to the alkali in its pure state, and had driven the air out of it in their conflict. It seems therefore evident, that the air was forced from the alkali by the acid, and lodged ...

— Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances • Joseph Black

... fourth had come right over the cliff edge, and rose up at me upon its hinder parts, as had done those others when the bo'sun had succored me. At that, I gave way, having a very lively dread; but, hearing all about me the cries of conflict, and knowing that I could expect no help, I made at the brute: then as it stooped and reached out one of its bunches of tentacles, I sprang back, and slashed at them, and immediately I followed this up by a thrust in the stomach, ...

— The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" • William Hope Hodgson

... suicide and is dissuaded by Antigone. (b) 320-62. An embassy from Thebes arrives begging Oedipus to return and stop the threatened war between his sons. He refuses, and declares the intention of hiding near the field of battle and listening joyfully to the conflict between his unnatural sons. II. The remaining portion, on the other hand, seems to imply that Oedipus is still in Thebes (553, 623), and represents a scene between Jocasta and her sons. It lacks a conclusion. These two different scenes can ...

— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

... would be small comfort for her in the thought of her father's protection. She divined intuitively that he would be a liability rather than an asset in any conflict that might arise between ...

— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine

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