noun
    
    plural -flicts
    
    a struggle for power, property, etc. [count]
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    strong disagreement between people, groups, etc., that results in often angry argument [noncount]
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    a difference that prevents agreement :disagreement between ideas, feelings, etc. [count]
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    [count] chiefly US :a situation in which you are unable to do something because there is something else you have already agreed to do at that same time
    
    
    
    
    
    come into conflict
    
    to be different in a way that prevents agreement
    
    
    
    
    
    to enter a situation in which there is a struggle for power, property, etc. - often + with
    
    
    
    in conflict
    
    different in a way that prevents agreement
    
    
    
    usually + with
    
    
    
    
    
    in a struggle for power, property, etc.
    
    
    
    verb
    
    -flicts; -flicted; -flicting
    
    [no obj]
    
    to be different in a way that prevents agreement :to say or express opposite things
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    to happen at the same time as something else - usually + with