All 5 Uses of
conflict
in
The War of the Worlds
- Evidently they shared my mental conflict.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- I did not know even the circumstances that had precipitated the conflict.†
Chpt 1.10
- The air was full of sound, a deafening and confusing conflict of noises—the clangorous din of the Martians, the crash of falling houses, the thud of trees, fences, sheds flashing into flame, and the crackling and roaring of fire.†
Chpt 1.12
- So far as one can ascertain from the conflicting accounts that have been put forth, the majority of them remained busied with preparations in the Horsell pit until nine that night, hurrying on some operation that disengaged huge volumes of green smoke.†
Chpt 1.15
- And so our widened incompatibility ended at last in open conflict.†
Chpt 2.4
Definition:
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(conflict) a struggle or disagreementin various senses, including:
- a serious disagreement -- as in "political conflict"
- the tension from two opposing ideas or feelings -- as in "I'm conflicted about where I should go to college."
- a violent fight or war -- as in "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
- an idiom that refers to tension between responsibilities to different entities -- "conflict of interest"