Conflict: Definition and part of speech

Conflict

  1. v. A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
  2. v. A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
  3. v. i. To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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