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struggle
[ struhg-uhl ]
verb (used without object)
- to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- to contend resolutely with a task, problem, etc.; strive:
to struggle for existence.
- to advance with violent effort:
to struggle through the snow.
- (of athletes and competitors) to be coping with inability to perform well or to win; contend with difficulty:
After struggling for the whole month of June, he suddenly caught fire and raised his batting average 30 points.
verb (used with object)
- to bring, put, etc., by struggling:
She struggled the heavy box into a corner.
- to make (one's way) with violent effort.
struggle
/ ˈstrʌɡəl /
verb
- intr; usually foll by for or against; may take an infinitive to exert strength, energy, and force; work or strive
to struggle to obtain freedom
- intr to move about strenuously so as to escape from something confining
- intr to contend, battle, or fight
- intr to go or progress with difficulty
noun
- a laboured or strenuous exertion or effort
- a fight or battle
- the act of struggling
- the strugglethe radical and armed opposition to apartheid, especially by the military wings of the ANC and the PAC
Derived Forms
- ˈstrugglingly, adverb
- ˈstruggler, noun
- ˈstruggling, adjective
Other Words From
- struggler noun
- struggling·ly adverb
- pre·struggle noun verb (used without object) prestruggled prestruggling
- un·struggling adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of struggle1
Example Sentences
They accept the winners of the power struggle and in a few months, they have a new nest with them.
As a law student at the University of Notre Dame, I’ve seen firsthand the struggle to try to make in-person classes work.
We fought a lot about it at first, but now I realize that it was because she had watched the LGBTQ folks of her own generation struggle so much, and she didn’t want me to have to live through that struggle.
A little over a week into her stay at home, Lavalais watched her struggle to swallow as she tried to drink.
Problems in this stress response set kids on a path toward behavior struggles.
Then she managed to struggle a mile through dark, rainy woods.
We might have thought The Comeback was about a desperate actress's shameless struggle for fame.
But it turns out it was really about a woman's struggle to realize what actually makes her happy.
In her struggle to find her daughter, Esther becomes one of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
Welcome to the daily struggle of every face you meet in Cuba.
Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
The crowd shuffled off in all directions, and then engaged in a confused struggle for the chairs.
To this, it is greatly to be feared, the fiery Southerns will not submit without an armed struggle.
And a severe, embittered struggle then took place in a heart that seemed strangely divided against itself.
His repeated coughing seemed a constant warning that at any moment he might be vanquished in the struggle for becoming silence.
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What are other ways to say struggle?
A struggle is a war, fight, conflict, or contest of any kind. How does struggle compare to brush and clash? Find out on Thesaurus.com.
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