Main entry: conflict, battle, engagement, fight
Definition: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
Usage: Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga; he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
Main entry: battle, struggle, conflict
Definition: an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
Usage: the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph--Thomas Paine; police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs
Main entry: conflict
Definition: an incompatibility of dates or events
Usage: he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings
Main entry: conflict, difference, difference of opinion, dispute
Definition: a disagreement or argument about something important
Usage: he had a dispute with his wife; there were irreconcilable differences; the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats
Main entry: conflict
Definition: opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
Usage: he was immobilized by conflict and indecision
Main entry: conflict
Definition: opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
Usage: this form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing
Main entry: conflict
Definition: a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
Usage: his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post; a conflict of loyalties
Main entry: infringe, run afoul, conflict, contravene
Definition: go against, as of rules and laws
Usage: He ran afoul of the law; This behavior conflicts with our rules
Main entry: conflict
Definition: be in conflict
Usage: The two proposals conflict!