All 5 Uses of
conflict
in
The Merchant of Death
- Courtney said, "Looks like you've got kind of a conflicted puberty versus playschool thing going on.†
- To say that my mind was a jumble of conflicting thoughts was an understatement.†
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- Every territory is in conflict.†
- But no matter what the conflict of a territory is, the true enemy is Saint Dane.†
- The Milago and the Bedoowan have been in conflict for centuries, but Saint Dane has pushed it to the edge.†
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"