What's the difference between gegen and wider?

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"Wider" is quite old-fashioned. You will hardly find it in modern texts or conversations, except a few fixed expressions like "wider den tierischen Ernst" or as a part of verbs like "widersprechen", "widerlegen" etc. 
For your active vocabulary, it will be enough to use "gegen".

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If you look at the German dictionary Duden or other dictionaries you will see that especially 'gegen' has many meanings (https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/gegen_zu_wider_an) 
'Wider' is either a prefix to verbs or a preposition (https://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/wider), so it would help if you could narrow down your question.

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'gegen' can be understood as versus, wider is more like 'against'. as always, context is needed for more precise semantics.

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