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strife

n.

Verbal contention
quarrel, discard, animosity, conflict; see disagreement, discord.
Physical struggle
fighting, struggle, combat; see fight 1. See syn. study at discord.

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Another word for strife

noun

A state of disagreement and disharmony:
clash, conflict, confrontation, contention, difference, difficulty, disaccord, discord, discordance, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissonance, faction, friction, inharmony, schism, variance, war, warfare. See conflict
A state of open, prolonged fighting:
belligerency, conflict, confrontation, hostility (used in plural), struggle, war, warfare. See conflict
A vying with others for victory or supremacy:
battle, competition, contest, corrivalry, race, rivalry, striving, struggle, tug of war, war, warfare. See conflict

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But the centre of strife was not to be Arabia.
Grote maintains that ostracism was a useful device, on the grounds that it removed the danger of tyranny, and was better than the perpetual civil strife of the previous century.
Immediately after the war, strife occurred among the Basuto themselves over the question of the partition of Moirosi's territory, which had been decided on as one of the results of the war.
(e) The strife with beasts at Ephesus.
The early years of the Omayyads were years of constant strife in Arabia.

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