0 past simple and past participle of clash --
This latest statement from the White House clashes with important aspects of US foreign policy.
The government and the opposition parties have clashed over the cuts in defence spending.
Students clashed with police after demonstrations at five universities.
2 If two people or teams clash in a sports competition or race, they compete seriously against each other. --
3 If colours or styles clash, they look ugly or wrong together: --
4 If two events clash, they happen at the same time in a way that is not convenient: --
5 to make a loud noise like metal hitting metal, or to cause something to make this noise: --
The two sides clashed in church, in factories and on the streets.
In both ancient and modern societies, he believed, where an immemorial order clashed with an impetus of crude energy, disaster resulted.
His terminology, however, clashed oddly with his method.
How the different members fitted together (or clashed) determined their staying power.
Given these prevalent views, it is little wonder that the two student organisations clashed.
And their encouragement of ecstatic subjectivity clashed with the state's desire for a disciplined subject.
The world views of nations, like those of museums, clashed.
All such practices clashed with assumptions of confidentiality underlying the existing private patient\practitioner relationship.
