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Another word for clash

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Verb

  1. To strike together with a loud, harsh noise

    See also:

    sounds

  2. To fail to be in accord

    Idioms:
    See also:

    agree

Noun

  1. A loud striking together

    See also:

    sounds

  2. A state of disagreement and disharmony

    See also:

    conflict

  3. A discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed

    See also:

    conflict

  4. A brief, hostile exposure to or contact with something such as danger or opposition

    See also:

    touch

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for clash

Noun

  1. Collision

    See also:

    collision

  2. Disagreement

    See also:

    dispute

    disagreement

Verb
  1. See also:

    quarrel

    oppose

    fight

    differ

    contrast

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Sentence Examples

  • A clash with Parma occurred to aggravate his troubles.

  • The natives appeared again the next spring, and a clash occurred.

  • The clash of arms breaks upon his pagan paradise with no uncertain sound; he is swift in narrative, breathless in escapade.

  • The traveller in Egypt thus views, side by side with the activities of the present day, where occident and orient meet and clash, memorials of every race and civilization which has flourished in the valley of the Nile.

  • Her interests and those of Athens did not directly clash, for Athens included in her empire only the islands of the Aegean and the towns on its north and east coasts, which lay outside the Spartan political horizon: with the Peloponnese Athens did not meddle.

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