Conflict vs Contend - What's the difference?
conflict | contend |
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.
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
* Shakespeare
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
* Dr H. More
As verbs the difference between conflict and contend
is that conflict is To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible while contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.As a noun conflict
is A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.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 ----contend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
- The question which our author would contend for.
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
