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conflict
A	noun
	1	battle, conflict, fight, engagement
			a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚group action ╚military action; action ╚battle, conflict, fight, engagement ╚Drogheda ╚Battle of Britain ╚assault ╚dogfight ╚combat; armed combat ╚naval battle ╚pitched battle ╚Armageddon
	2	conflict, struggle, battle
			an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚group action ╚conflict, struggle, battle ╚war; warfare ╚feud ╚fight; fighting; combat; scrap ╚turf war ╚tug-of-war ╚strife ╚pacification; counterinsurgency ╚rebellion; insurrection; revolt; rising; uprising ╚class struggle; class war; class warfare
	3	conflict
			an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚quality ╚characteristic ╚incompatibility ╚conflict
	4	dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict
			a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚speech act ╚disagreement ╚dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict ╚quarrel; wrangle; row; words; run-in; dustup ╚controversy; contention; contestation; disputation; disceptation; tilt; argument; arguing ╚collision
	5	conflict
			opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; "he was immobilized by conflict and indecision"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚feeling ╚ambivalence; ambivalency ╚conflict
	6	conflict
			opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); "this form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚opposition; oppositeness ╚conflict
	7	conflict
			a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; "his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post"; "a conflict of loyalties"
		Category Tree: state ╚conflict ╚disagreement; dissension; dissonance ╚cold war ╚clash ╚clash; friction
B	verb
	1	conflict, run afoul, infringe, contravene
			go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afould of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚interact ╚relate ╚disrespect ╚transgress; offend; infract; violate; go against; breach; break ╚conflict, run afoul, infringe, contravene
	2	conflict
			be in conflict; "The two proposals conflict!"
		Category Tree: differ ╚contrast; counterpoint ╚conflict ╚clash; jar; collide

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