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NounPlural: struggles |
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| struggle - strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her" | ||
| elbow grease, exertion, travail, effort, sweat use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" | ||
| struggle - an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition" | ||
| battle | ||
| try, attempt, endeavor, endeavour, effort earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try" | ||
| duel any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups) | ||
| scramble, scuffle an unceremonious and disorganized struggle | ||
| struggle - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs" | ||
| conflict, battle | ||
| group action action taken by a group of people | ||
| class struggle, class war, class warfare conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes) | ||
| insurrection, revolt, uprising, rebellion, rising organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | ||
| counterinsurgency, pacification actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | ||
| strife bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension | ||
| tug-of-war any hard struggle between equally matched groups | ||
| turf war a bitter struggle for territory or power or control or rights; "a turf war erupted between street gangs"; "the president's resignation was the result of a turf war with the board of directors" | ||
| fighting, combat, scrap, fight an engagement fought between two military forces | ||
| feud a bitter quarrel between two parties | ||
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| struggle - to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope" | ||
| endeavor, endeavour, strive attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy" | ||
| struggle - be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country" | ||
| contend, fight | ||
| compete, vie, contend compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | ||
| drive back, fight off, rebuff, repulse, repel reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" | ||
| bear down exert a force or cause a strain upon; "This tax bears down on the lower middle class" | ||
| fistfight fight with the fists; "The man wanted to fist-fight" | ||
| join battle engage in a conflict; "The battle over health care reform was joined" | ||
| tug struggle in opposition; "She tugged and wrestled with her conflicts" | ||
| fight down, fight back, fight, oppose, defend defend oneself | ||
| get back, settle take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" | ||
| fight back defend oneself | ||
| battle, combat battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" | ||
| war make or wage war | ||
| assail, attack attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" | ||
| duel fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman; "In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters" | ||
| joust joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback | ||
| chicken-fight, chickenfight fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | ||
| tourney engage in a tourney | ||
| feud carry out a feud; "The two professors have been feuding for years" | ||
| skirmish engage in a skirmish | ||
| bandy discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions" | ||
| fence fight with fencing swords | ||
| box engage in a boxing match | ||
| spar fight verbally; "They were sparring all night" | ||
| scuffle, tussle fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters; "the drunken men started to scuffle" | ||
| wrestle engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate; "I wrestled with this decision for years" | ||
| wage, engage get caught; "make sure the gear is engaged" | ||
| struggle - make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath" | ||
| fight | ||
| assay, attempt, essay, seek, try analyze (chemical substances) | ||
| labor, labour, tug, push, drive undergo the efforts of childbirth | ||
| flounder behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in college" | ||
| struggle - climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | ||
| clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter | ||
| climb improve one's social status; "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- struggle (Noun)
strife, contention, great effort. - struggle (Verb)
To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight for or against, to contend.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- struggle (v. i.)
To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. - struggle (v. i.)
To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity. - struggle (v. i.)
To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress. - struggle (n.)
A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress. - struggle (n.)
Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil. - struggle (n.)
Contest; contention; strife.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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struggle
An energetic attempt to achieve something. -
struggle
To make a strenuous or labored effort.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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struggle
strug′l, v.i. to make great efforts with contortions of the body: to make great exertions: to contend: to labour in pain: to be in agony or distress.—n. a violent effort with contortions of the body: great labour: agony.—n. Strugg′ler, one who struggles, strives, or contends. [Skeat explains M. E. strogelen as a weakened form of an assumed strokelen, a freq. verb, from Ice. strok-, stem of strokinn, pa.p. of strjúka, to strike; cf. Ice. strokka, to churn, also Sw. stryka, to strike.]
