0 past simple and past participle of clash
Students clashed with police after demonstrations at five universities.
The government and the opposition parties have clashed over the cuts in defence spending.
This latest statement from the White House clashes with important aspects of US foreign policy.
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 policies pursued by one colony's merchants sometimes clashed with the interests of another.
Given the specific junctures and depending on issue areas such as economic, foreign, and cultural policy, these factions have clashed or cooperated with one another.
Populist strategies for disseminating scientific values clashed with control by academically educated experts.
Their objectives and ideals as well as their conservatism in social matters inevitably clashed with those of the anarchists.
They claimed that the idea of local government clashed with democracy and the principles of national unity.
In particular, the curricular objectives and communication technologies made available clashed at pivotal points.
This clashed with the leadership's desire to ensure a balanced delegation, and no doubt to retain the useful patronage that such nomination implied.
All such practices clashed with assumptions of confidentiality underlying the existing private patient\practitioner relationship.
