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Conflicting vs Warring - What's the difference?

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Conflicting is a related term of warring.


As adjectives the difference between conflicting and warring

is that conflicting is striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome while warring is engaged in war; belligerent.

As a verb conflicting

is .

As a noun warring is

the act of engaging in war or conflict.

conflicting

English

(Webster 1828)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
  • Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
    • In the absence of all conflicting evidence.
  • * 1999 , Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading
  • *:On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.
  • * 1841 , Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop Chapter 73
  • *:Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • References

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    warring

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • engaged in war; belligerent

    • Antonyms

    * peaceful

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of engaging in war or conflict.
  • * 1842 , The Church of England Magazine (volume 13, page 189)
    • Worn out and wearied with the endless warrings of virulent sectarians
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