C2 disagreements or fighting between different groups of people:
It is feared that the civil unrest we are now witnessing in this country could lead to full-scale civil war.
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(Definition of “unrest” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of “unrest” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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