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Strife

Strife Meaning & Definition
Strife Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Strife?

[n] bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension
[n] lack of agreement or harmony

Synonyms | Synonyms for Strife: discord

Related Terms | Find terms related to Strife:

See Also | battle | conflict | countercurrent | discord | discordance | disorder | struggle

Strife In Webster's Dictionary

\Strife\, n. [OF. estrif. See {Strive}.] 1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic] --Shak. 2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. Doting about questions and strifes of words. --1 Tim. vi. 4. Thus gods contended -- noble strife - Who most should ease the wants of life. --Congreve. 3. Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle. Twenty of them fought in this black strife. --Shak. These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above Betwixt the god of war and queen of love. --Dryden. 4. That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.] ``Lamenting her unlucky strife.'' --Spenser. Syn: Contest; struggle; quarrel. See {Contention}.

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