Definition of strife Strife
/stɹajˈf/ - [strayf] - strife
We found 12 definitions of strife from 7 different sources.
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What does strife mean?
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NounPlural: strives |
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| strife - bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension | ||
| battle, struggle, conflict 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" | ||
| countercurrent, crosscurrent actions counter to the main group activity; "political crosscurrents disrupted the conference" | ||
| strife - lack of agreement or harmony | ||
| discord | ||
| disorder a disturbance of the peace or of public order | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- strife (n.)
The act of striving; earnest endeavor. - strife (n.)
Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. - strife (n.)
Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle. - strife (n.)
That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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strife
strīf, n. contention for superiority: struggle for victory: contest: discord.—adj. Strife′ful (Spens.), full of strife, contentious, discordant—also Strif′ful. [M. E. strif—O. Fr. estrif—Scand., Ice. strith, strife; Ger. streit, Dut. strijd, strife.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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strife
Contention in battle;, contest; struggle for victory; quarrel of war.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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Weight and measure take away strife. -
strife
Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the good man and his wife.
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