Usually means: Conflict or struggle between parties.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. strife: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. strife: Merriam-Webster
  3. strife: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. strife: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. strife: Collins English Dictionary
  6. strife: Vocabulary.com
  7. Strife, strife: Wordnik
  8. strife: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. strife: Wiktionary
  10. strife: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. strife: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. strife: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. strife: Dictionary.com
  14. strife: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. strife: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Strife (MOBA), Strife (band), Strife (game), Strife (play), Strife (song), Strife (video game), Strife: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Strife: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. strife: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. strife: Rhymezone
  20. strife: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. strife: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. strife: FreeDictionary.org
  23. strife: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. strife: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Strife (disambiguation), strife: Legal dictionary

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  1. strife: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. STRIFE: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. strife: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. strife: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See strifeless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work.
noun:  Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means.
noun:  Bitter conflict, sometimes violent.
noun:  (colloquial) A trouble of any kind.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.

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