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Struggle   /strˈəgəl/   Listen
Struggle

noun
1.
An energetic attempt to achieve something.  Synonym: battle.  "He fought a battle for recognition"
2.
An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).  Synonyms: battle, conflict.  "Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
3.
Strenuous effort.
verb
(past & past part. struggled; pres. part. struggling)
1.
Make a strenuous or labored effort.  Synonym: fight.  "He fought for breath"
2.
To exert strenuous effort against opposition.
3.
Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.  Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter.
4.
Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight.  Synonyms: contend, fight.  "Siblings are always fighting" , "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"



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"Struggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... German supremacy. Certainly, they are kinsmen of the Dutch. But, my dear Baron, will not the German people be alarmed at the consequences of an extension of our possessions over sea? Larger colonial possessions necessitate a larger fleet. Think of the struggle which the allied Governments had to carry through Parliament even a modest increase in the ...
— The Coming Conquest of England • August Niemann
... gaze longingly at the picture above his desk. Since his return from the hills Jim Weston had learned a new lesson, but before it could be applied, it was necessary for him to undergo the severest mental and spiritual struggle he ...
— Glen of the High North • H. A. Cody
... from the window, trembling with sudden apprehension. Was he really going? Had her father treated him with indignity? Was he giving her up without a struggle or a ...
— The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals • Ann S. Stephens
... What a struggle to get wood for that fire? Coal wouldn't burn in the open hearth. She had begged a little wood from the cook in the garage, but it was wet and hissed, and all her fire died down. Wood hadn't proved so abundant on the hills as she had hoped. Either it was ...
— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold
... him from the Swedenborgian school at Urbana to the young university at Ithaca; and I remember his exultation in making it. But he could not rest there, and in a few years he resigned his professorship, and came to New York, where he entered high-heartedly upon the struggle with fortune which ended in his appointment ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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