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battle, fight, engagement, struggle, dispute, difference, difference of opinion, run afoul, infringe, contravene Definition: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement";an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs";an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings";a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats";opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; "he was immobilized by conflict and indecision";opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); "this form of conflict is essential to Mann''s writing";a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; "his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post"; "a conflict of loyalties";go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afould of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules";be in conflict; "The two proposals conflict!";
Hyponyms: Armageddon, pitched battle, naval battle, combat, armed combat, dogfight, assault, Battle of Britain, Drogheda, class struggle, class war, class warfare, rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising, pacification, counterinsurgency, strife, tug-of-war, turf war, fight, fighting, scrap, feud, war, warfare, collision, controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing, quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup, clash, friction, cold war, disagreement, dissension, dissonance, jar, collide Part Meronyms: war, warfare Derivational Morphology:
engage, wage, fight, struggle, battle, combat, disagree, differ, dissent, take issue, quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate, challenge, gainsay, run afoul, infringe, contravene, contravention, violation, infringement, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, infraction, offence, offense
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