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conflict
[ verb kuhn-flikt; noun kon-flikt ]
verb (used without object)
- to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash:
The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
Synonyms: ,
- to fight or contend; do battle.
noun
- a fight, battle, or struggle, especially a prolonged struggle; strife.
Synonyms: ,
- controversy; quarrel:
conflicts between parties.
Antonyms:
- discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles:
a conflict of ideas.
Synonyms: ,
- a striking together; collision.
- incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event, or activity with another:
a conflict in the schedule.
- Psychiatry. a mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses.
conflict
noun
- a struggle or clash between opposing forces; battle
- a state of opposition between ideas, interests, etc; disagreement or controversy
- a clash, as between two appointments made for the same time
- psychol opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible wishes or drives, sometimes leading to a state of emotional tension and thought to be responsible for neuroses
verb
- to come into opposition; clash
- to fight
Derived Forms
- DzˈڱپDz, noun
- Dzˈڱپ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- Dz·ڱ·پDz noun
- Dz·ڱ·پ Dz·ڱ·ٴ· [k, uh, n-, flik, -t, uh, -ree], adjective
- non·Dz·ڱ·پ adjective
- ·Dz·ڱ verb (used without object)
- ·Dz·ڱ noun
- -Dz·ڱ noun
- un·Dz·ڱ·پ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of conflict1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of conflict1
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Example Sentences
The roots of sectarian conflict run deep here, nourished by decades of repressive rule by the Assad family, members of Syria's Alawite minority.
Tom Pyun’s fast-paced ‘Something Close to Nothing’ uses everything from Meryl Streep to hip-hop dance to remind us that gay parents are as impulsive and conflicted as anyone else.
It also conflicts with the paper trail, which shows that they incorporated and registered the domain "girlsgonebible.com" a month before the first episode was released.
There is the migration of many, many people towards the West, digitally savvy about the relative riches here, climate change and conflict among the push factors for some too.
The pager attacks were a turning point in what had been, until then, an intensifying but relatively contained conflict.
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