Definitions for: Strife

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

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: discord

See Also: battle, conflict, countercurrent, discord, discordance, disorder, struggle

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