Conflict vs Contend - What's the difference?
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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 Noun
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A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
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An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
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Related terms
* conflictional
Verb
( en verb)
To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
- Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
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contend Verb
( en verb)
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
* Shakespeare
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
- The question which our author would contend for.
* Dr H. More
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.
Synonyms
* struggle, fight, combat, vie, strive, oppose, emulate, contest, litigate, dispute, debate
Related terms
* contender
* contention
* contentious
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