CLASHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clashing mean? 

• CLASHING (adjective)
  The adjective CLASHING has 1 sense:

1. sharply and harshly discordant

  Familiarity information: CLASHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sharply and harshly discordant

Context example:

clashing colors

Similar:

incompatible (not compatible)

 Context examples 

"Hear! Hear!" cried Jo, clashing the lid of the warming pan like a cymbal.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The porcupine met his approach with a furious squealing and a clashing of its long teeth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then came the sharp clink of clashing steel, and a roar like that of an angry lion—“Notre Dame Du Guesclin! St. Ives! St. Ives!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a great snarling and growling, a clashing of teeth and a flurry of bodies.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Somewhat daunted, Jo righted herself, spread her handkerchief over the devoted ribbons, and putting temptation behind her, hurried on, with increasing dampness about the ankles, and much clashing of umbrellas overhead.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Long ere they could gain the level ground, the Spaniards, seeing them riding swiftly amid the rocks, and being ignorant of their numbers, drew off from the captured hill, and, having secured their few prisoners, rode slowly in a long column, with drum-beating and cymbal-clashing, out of the valley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scarce had the last deep amen broken from the Company, when, in an instant, there rose the scream of a hundred bugles, with the deep rolling of drums and the clashing of cymbals, all sounding together in one deafening uproar.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)