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clash

n. a state of conflict between colors; "her dress was a disturbing clash of colors"

brush, clash, encounter, skirmish

n. a minor short-term fight

clash

v. disagree violently; "We clashed over the new farm policies"

collide, clash

v. crash together with violent impact; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed"

clash, jar, collide

v. be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"

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hostility, enmity, antagonism

n. a state of deep-seated ill-will

discord, strife

n. lack of agreement or harmony

fight

n. a boxing or wrestling match; "the fight was on television last night"

conflict, struggle, battle

n. 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"

battle, conflict, fight, engagement

n. 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"

engagement, participation, involvement, involution

n. the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"

affray, altercation, fracas

n. noisy quarrel

rumble

n. a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage

war, state of war

n. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"

hostility, enmity, antagonism

n. a state of deep-seated ill-will

contest

n. a struggle between rivals

argue, contend, debate, fence

v. have an argument about something

quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate

v. have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"

contest, contend, repugn

v. to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race"

war

v. make or wage war

bump, knock

v. knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"

crash

v. fall or come down violently; "The branch crashed down on my car"; "The plane crashed in the sea"

jar

v. place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"

differ

v. be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect"

disagree, disaccord, discord

v. be different from one another

deviate, vary, diverge, depart

v. be at variance with; be out of line with

vary

v. be subject to change in accordance with a variable; "Prices vary"; "His moods vary depending on the weather"

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agree

v. consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something; "She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her alone"

miss

v. fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target"

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