conflict
/kənˈflɪkt/ verb C2- To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
- To overlap (with), as in a schedule. · Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.· It appears that our schedules conflict.
He/she/it conflicts · Past conflicted · Past participle conflicted · -ing form conflicting
Verb forms
- Base form
- conflict
- He/she/it
- conflicts
- Past
- conflicted
- Past participle
- conflicted
- -ing form
- conflicting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A SERPENT and an Eagle were struggling with each other in deadly conflict.
He was dragged back into the room, and then commenced a terrific conflict.
Everyone, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes’ theory of pressure and impulsion.
A few dingy olives and stunted fig-trees struggled hard for existence, but their withered dusty foliage abundantly proved how unequal was the conflict.
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