Conflict vs Assault - What's the difference?
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A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
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To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.
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A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government.
(criminal, legal) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching his person, as by lifting a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at him and missing him.
(singulare tantum, legal) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
(singulare tantum, legal) The tort whose action is such an act.
(fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
As nouns the difference between conflict and assault
is that conflict is A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals while assault is a violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.As verbs the difference between conflict and assault
is that conflict is To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible while assault is to attack, threaten or harass.conflict
English
(wikipedia conflict)Noun
(en noun)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
Verb
(en verb)- Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
References
* English heteronyms ----assault
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault .
- Unshaken bears the assault / Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest.