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Struggle   /strˈəgəl/   Listen
noun
Struggle  n.  
1.
A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
2.
Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
3.
Contest; contention; strife. "An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference."
Synonyms: Endeavor; effort; contest; labor; difficulty.


verb
Struggle  v. i.  (past & past part. struggled; pres. part. struggling)  
1.
To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
2.
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. "The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it (Gettysburg) far above our power to add or detract."
3.
To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress. "'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
Synonyms: To strive; contend; labor; endeavor.





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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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