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Meaning of 'struggle' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Struggle [ n.]
- A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
- Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
- Contest; contention; strife.
2 . Struggle [ v. i.]
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
- 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.
- To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

Meaning of 'struggle' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . struggle [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an energetic attempt to achieve something
Example in sentence:
  • getting through the crowd was a real struggle;
  • he fought a battle for recognition
Meaning (2):
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
Example in sentence:
  • police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs;
  • the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph
Meaning (3):
- strenuous effort
Example in sentence:
  • the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her
4 . struggle [ v]
Meaning (4):
- make a strenuous or labored effort
Example in sentence:
  • He fought for breath;
  • She struggled for years to survive without welfare
Meaning (5):
- to exert strenuous effort against opposition
Example in sentence:
  • he struggled to get free from the rope
Meaning (6):
- be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
Example in sentence:
  • Militant groups are contending for control of the country;
  • Siblings are always fighting;
  • the tribesmen fought each other

Nearby Words:

strabism strabismometer strabismus strabotomy straddle straddled straddling stradometrical straggle straggled

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