Conflicting Conflict Conflicted Kənˈflɪkt Reports Verb Bre Emotions/Interests/Loyalties

• conflicting emotions/interests/loyalties
• these results conflict with earlier findings.
• reports conflicted on how much of the aid was reaching the famine victims.
• different doctors gave him conflicting advice.

conflict

1. if two ideas, beliefs, stories, etc. conflict, it is not possible for them to exist together or for them both to be true
• synonym clash
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• conflicting emotions/interests/loyalties
• These results conflict with earlier findings.
• Reports conflicted on how much of the aid was reaching the famine victims.

Extra Examples

• Different doctors gave him conflicting advice.
• His opinions conflicted with mine.
• There have been conflicting reports about the size of the explosion.
• how to reconcile apparently conflicting goals
• potentially conflicting values
• the conflicting demands of work and home life
• He was torn between conflicting loyalties to family and work.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they conflict
• he / she / it conflicts
• past simple conflicted
• past participle conflicted
• -ing form conflicting

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin conflict- ‘struck together, fought’, from the verb confligere, from con- ‘together’ + fligere ‘to strike’; the noun is via Latin conflictus ‘a contest’.