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STRIFE
strife
(noun) bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension
discord, strife
(noun) lack of agreement or harmony
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
strife (countable and uncountable, plural strifes)
Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work.
Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means.
Bitter conflict, sometimes violent.
Synonyms: altercation, contention, discord, wrangle
(colloquial) A trouble of any kind.
(obsolete) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
Anagrams
• Fister, firest, firste, fister, freits, refits, resift, rifest, sifter
Source: Wiktionary
Strife, n. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
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SPRINGBOARD
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
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