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clash English

Meaning clash meaning

What does clash mean?
Definitions in simple English

clash Verb

— If two individuals or groups clash, they get into a fight. The Reds clashed with the police during the riot.

clash

— noun (= clang) a loud resonant repeating noise he could hear the clang of distant bells — noun a state of conflict between persons — verb (= collide) crash together with violent impact The cars collided Two meteors clashed — verb disagree violently We clashed over the new farm policies — verb be incompatible; be or come into conflict These colors clash — noun a state of conflict between colors her dress was a disturbing clash of colors — noun (= brush) a minor short-term fight

Synonyms clash synonyms

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clash English » English

conflict collision collide fight crash encounter confrontation skirmish quarrel clank clang argue squabble scuffle jar dispute clatter strife disagree rattle oppose meet fray discord clap clangour clangor brush battle tussle smash run-in run counter to inconsistency impact go awry friction disagreement differ cross each other contrast contrary to contradiction confront clangoring bump into brawl blow be against antagonism

Topics clash topics

What do people use clash to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict

Fight
Social behavior Conflict

War
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds
Language and thought Communication Say Debate

Quarrel
Social behavior Relationships

Disunity
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Riot
States Quality Light

Color

  • What words describe colors that do not look good together?
    clash
States Quality Good Right, proper

Compatible
States Time Relative time Before

At the same time

  • What words refer to two things happening at the same time?
    coincide clash

Conjugation clash conjugation

How do you conjugate clash?

clash · verb

Examples clash examples

How do I use clash in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The two meetings clash.
The two strongest teams will clash with each other this weekend.
The red shoes clash with this green shirt.
His interests clash with mine.
Those colors clash.

Movie subtitles

No one on Clash of Dragons has said that.
Have some weird clash with the cello.
We've had rather a clash of taste.
They clash.
A very unruly horse and I met in a clash of wills.
What will divide it quicker than a clash between Lancelot and Arthur?
It is a clash between men who love to fly and men who don't, men who think in terms of air power. and men who can't think at all.
Oh, that's all right. We won't clash.
The habitual clash between public and private schools.
I just try not to clash with what's in style.
It's a clash of temperament that's going on in there.
Cool colors. They mustn't clash.
Clash?
Let's not forget that Julius Caesar said the clash with the Dacians would be more difficult than the one with the Gauls.
That one insane clash turned the tide in our favor.
He's unresponsive, there is a scene, a clash of temperaments.
The clash of angry swords, the roar of cannon and you.
And in between, the company of men. The clash of intellects to stimulate the mind. Captain.
What hope can you have in that ugly clash of colors?
In a clash of wills, Colonel, he who shouts loudest is lost.
Spurs, then there's no clash of colours.
Good, that won't clash with my blue.
The clash between Anguianos, Menchacas and their supporters seemed imminent.
They called the police, because they want a clash we have to fight united, against the owner's exploitation!
It did me good to clash with Klaus when he accused me pitilessly.
What happened there is the clash between two groups lack of understanding.
Einstein's prohibition against traveling faster than light seems to clash with our common sense notions.
Yesterday night there was a clash at the border.
You know, how terrible lightning and thunder can rage in the mountains, at night, when two thunderstorms meet and clash against each other.
Clash, crash!
If you're going to fight, clash.
You can here the serenada and the clash of steel so bright.
To make it appear to be a clash between the clans.

News and current affairs

Will developing countries' need to generate large increases in the supply of industrial products inevitably clash with the world's intolerance of trade imbalances?
Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.
So long as these ideas clash, violence will lurk.
Moreover, the clash within Islam is likely to be destabilizing regionally and counterproductive to the interests of the free world.
The second issue the Court considered was the conflict between constitutional principles: the clash between freedom to express one's thoughts and condemnation of Ellwanger for the crime of racism.
America, too, historically had problems as a single-currency area, from early chaos before the Constitution to the clash between agricultural and banking interests over the gold standard in the late nineteenth century.
Moreover, in the wake of the eight-day clash, Hamas's long-exiled leader, Khaled Meshal, who had never before dared to show himself openly to Israel, entered Gaza from Egypt.
Add to that simultaneous tensions over China's claims to South China Sea islands and atolls - claims disputed by the Philippines and Vietnam - and a clash between China and the US was beginning to seem inevitable.
The controversy over China's exchange-rate policy thus is no mere bilateral US-China trade dispute, but rather a global macroeconomic clash between advanced and emerging countries.
However there is some ambiguity about what they should do when the claims of the state clash with those of the umma (the worldwide community of Islam).
But today's terrorist threat is not Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations.
Of course, I do not fear some sort of military clash between Turkey and the EU.
But an increasingly virulent and violent clash of cultures is emerging in Europe - particularly in France, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands - between Islam and the humanitarian, Christian, and Jewish traditions.
The various member states have forged widely different policies, which reflect their views rather than their true national interests - a clash of perceptions that carries the seeds of serious political conflict.
But the best way to prevent this is to create an environment in which opposing views can clash freely, enabling truth ultimately to triumph.
US-led policies toward the Islamic world have prevented a clash between civilizations only by fueling a clash within a civilization that has fundamentally weakened regional and international security.
Both involve disputes about sharing costs, complicated by a clash of values, at the center of which lies a newly dominant Germany.
The clash of values also impedes compromise.
The clash of two visions of Europe is eroding the political stability of an area that once represented the best model and greatest hope for benign regionalism.
Such a clash must be prevented.

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