clash
/ˈklæʃ/ verb C2- To make a clashing sound. · The cymbals clashed.
- To cause to make a clashing sound.
- To come into violent conflict. · Fans from opposing teams clashed on the streets after the game.
- To argue angrily. · My parents often clashed about minor things, such as the cleaning or shopping rota.
- To face each other in an important game.
- To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize. · You can't wear that shirt! It clashes with your trousers.· The hotel room was ugly, and the wallpaper clashed with the carpet.
- To coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all. · I can't come to your wedding because it clashes with a friend's funeral.· I wanted to take German, but it clashed with art on the timetable.
- To play Clash Royale or Clash of Clans. · Dude, are we clashing tonight?· Let's clash before bedtime.
He/she/it clashes · Past clashed · Past participle clashed · -ing form clashing
Verb forms
- Base form
- clash
- He/she/it
- clashes
- Past
- clashed
- Past participle
- clashed
- -ing form
- clashing
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The cows swung placidly down the lane, and Anne followed them dreamily, repeating aloud the battle canto from _Marmion_--which had also been part of their English course the preceding winter and which Miss Stacy had made them learn off by heart--and exulting in its rushing lines and the clash of spears in its imagery.
“Oh,” said Villefort, inexpressibly delighted to think that the inquiries were to be made by him alone,—“oh, be satisfied, I can understand my father.” While uttering these words with this expression of joy, his teeth clashed together violently.
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