The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Conflict \Con"flict\, n. [L. conflictus a striking together, fr.
confligere, -flictum, to strike together, to fight: cf. F.
conflit, formerly also conflict. See Conflict, v.]
1. A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a
conflict of elements or waves.
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2. A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle;
struggle; fighting.
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As soon as he [Atterbury] was himself again, he
became eager for action and conflict. --Macaulay.
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An irrepressible conflict between opposing and
enduring forces. --W. H.
Seward.
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Conflict of laws, that branch of jurisprudence which deals
with individual litigation claimed to be subject to the
conflicting laws of two or more states or nations; --
often used as synonymous with Private international law.
Syn: Contest; collision; struggle; combat; strife;
contention; battle; fight; encounter. See Contest.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Conflict \Con*flict"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Conflicted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Conflicting.] [L. conflictus, p. p. of confligere
to conflict (cf. conflictare); con- + fligere to strike; cf.
Gr. fli`bein, qli`bein, to press, L. flagrum whip.]
1. To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision;
to collide. --Shak.
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Fire and water conflicting together. --Bacon.
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2. To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or
opposition; to struggle.
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A man would be content to . . . conflict with great
difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward. --Abp.
Tillotson.
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3. To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
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The laws of the United States and of the individual
States may, in some cases, conflict with each other.
--Wheaton.
Syn: To fight; contend; contest; resist; struggle; combat;
strive; battle.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
279 Moby Thesaurus words for "conflict":
Discordia, Eris, Kilkenny cats, action, aerial combat, affray,
agree to disagree, altercation, ambivalence,
ambivalence of impulse, antagonism, antagonize, antipathy,
antithesis, argument, argumentation, armored combat, backlash,
bad blood, battle, battle royal, be antipathetic,
be at cross-purposes, be at variance, be distinct,
be distinguished, be inimical, be opposed to, beat against,
belligerence, bickering, brawl, break, break off, brush, bullfight,
cat-and-dog life, clash, clash of arms, clash with, clashing,
cockfight, collide, collision, combat, competition, concours,
conflict with, confrontation, confutation, confute, contention,
contentiousness, contest, contestation, contradict, contradiction,
contradistinction, contraindication, contrapose, contraposition,
contrariety, contrariness, contrast, contrast with, contravene,
controversy, controvert, counter, counteract, counteraction,
counterattack, counterbalance, countercheck, counterpoise,
counterpose, counterposition, countervail, counterwork,
counterworking, crankiness, cross, cross-purposes, crotchetiness,
cut and thrust, debate, decompensation, depart from,
despitefulness, deviate from, differ, differ in opinion,
difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffinity, disagree,
disagree with, disagreement, discord, discordance, discordancy,
discrepancy, disharmony, disparity, disputation, dispute,
dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disturb, disunion,
disunity, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, divergence,
diversity, dogfight, embroilment, emotional shock, emulation,
engagement, enmity, exchange of blows, external frustration,
faction, feud, fight, fighting, fire fight, fracas, fractiousness,
fray, friction, frustration, go against, go counter to, grate,
ground combat, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, hate,
hatred, hit a clinker, hold opposite views, hostility,
house-to-house combat, inaccordance, incompatibility,
incompatibleness, inconsistency, inequality, inharmoniousness,
inharmony, inimicalness, interfere, interfere with, interference,
jangle, jar, jar with, jarring, jostle, juxtapose in opposition,
kick, litigation, lock horns, logomachy, malevolence, malice,
malignity, meet, meet head-on, meeting, mental shock,
militate against, mischief, mismatch, mismate,
misunderstand one another, naval combat, negate, negation,
negativeness, nonconformity, noncooperation, not accord with,
not get along, not square with, object, obstinacy, offset,
open conflict, oppose, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugn,
oppugnance, oppugnancy, paper war, passage of arms, perverseness,
perversity, pitched battle, play at cross-purposes, polarity,
polemic, psychological stress, pull different ways, quarrel,
quarreling, quarrelsomeness, reaction, recalcitrance, recoil,
refractoriness, rencontre, renitency, repercussion, repugnance,
resist, resistance, revolt, rivalry, row, rub, rumble, run against,
run counter to, running fight, scramble, scrapping, scrimmage,
scuffle, set off, shoving match, showdown, skirmish, spat, spite,
spitefulness, squabble, squabbling, stand apart,
stand over against, stand-up fight, strained relations,
street fight, stress, strife, striving, struggle, swim upstream,
swimming upstream, tauromachy, tension, tiff, trauma, traumatism,
tug-of-war, tussle, uncooperativeness, unharmoniousness,
unpleasantness, unstring, untune, variance, vary, vying, war,
war of words, warfare, words, work against, wrangle, wrangling
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
CONFLICT. The opposition or difference between two judicial jurisdictions,
when they both claim the right to decide a cause, or where they both declare
their incompetency. The first is called a positive conflict, and the, latter
a negative conflict.