Crossword-Solution: STRIFE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STRIFE | anagram | FRITES, REFITS, RESIFT, RIFEST, SIFTER |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with STRIFE (5)
The happier state In Heav’n, which follows dignity, might draw Envy from each inferior; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Formost to stand against the Thunderers aime Your bulwark, and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain? where there is then no good For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From Faction; for none sure will claim in hell Precedence, none, whose portion is so small Of present pain, that with ambitious mind Will covet more.
When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: “Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings.” The Farmer and the Stork A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
Bathsheba would have submitted to an indignant chastisement for her levity had Gabriel protested that he was loving her at the same time; the impetuosity of passion unrequited is bearable, even if it stings and anathematizes—there is a triumph in the humiliation, and a tenderness in the strife.
Thou didst kindle the strife, this feud of kinsman with kin, By the eyes of a winsome wife, and the yearning her heart to win.
The economy has been severely hurt by ethnic strife with Azerbaijan over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, a mostly Armenian-populated enclave within the national boundaries of Azerbaijan.
Quotes with STRIFE (3)
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
... An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of bringing about a workable consensus between the diverse people is truly a hero. Such a man has to be a true disciple of peace, unity, solidarity and justice.
Hope Was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend, Even as selfish-hearted men. She was cruel in her fear; Through the bars one dreary day, I looked out to see her there, And she turned her face away! Like a false guard, false watch keeping, Still, in strife, she whispered peace; She would sing while I was weeping; If I listened, she would cease. False she was, and unrelenting; When my last joys strewed the ground, Even Sorrow saw, r…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 57 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).