Struggle
['strʌg(ə)l] or ['strʌɡl]
Definition
(noun.) strenuous effort; 'the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her'.
(noun.) an energetic attempt to achieve something; 'getting through the crowd was a real struggle'; 'he fought a battle for recognition'.
(verb.) to exert strenuous effort against opposition; 'he struggled to get free from the rope'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
(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.
(v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
(n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
(n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
(n.) Contest; contention; strife.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Strive, labor, toil, endeavor, try, aim, exert one's self, make an effort, do one's best.[2]. Contend, contest, fight, have a contest.
n. [1]. Labor, endeavor, effort, exertion, pains.[2]. Contest, contention, conflict, strife, fight.
Editor: Yvonne
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See RAMBLE]
SYN:Contest, violent_effort, labor, pains, agony,[See STRIFE]
Checked by Leda
Definition
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.
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Examples
- A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The Bell Company fought alone against the Western Union, and it was a struggle of giants. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Now the two great fleets closed in a titanic struggle far above the fiendish din of battle in the gorgeous gardens of the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Edison has always had an amused admiration for Bergmann, and his social side is often made evident by his love of telling stories about those days of struggle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It's not her fault if everybody don't know it now, growled Trenor, flushed with the struggle of getting into his fur-lined coat. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You were a brave fellow,--you had the right on your side; but it's all in vain, and out of the question, for you to struggle. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- My secret was out; and my only struggle now was for liberty and freedom. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I cried, struggling. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They have all, after a short season of promise, dropped out of notice; and the only one that is still in the field, struggling for superiority, is the air engine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Struggling and shrieking, his body, rolling from side to side, moved quickly toward the shadows beneath the trees. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- To my mind it symbolizes a view of the state which we are outgrowing, and throws into relief the view towards which we are struggling. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Here he was taken off his legs, and in swimming was carried round into the centre of the basin, where he perceived Wildeve struggling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Instead of being present, the life and soul of that struggling Institution, he had engaged to make one of a party of worldlings at a morning concert! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- That there was any Fancy in them demanding to be brought into healthy existence instead of struggling on in convulsions? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I struggled, and got out of it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The Holy Roman Empire struggled on indeed to the days of Napoleon, but as an invalid and dying thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For a week the Grand Army struggled through mud; then came sharp frosts, and then the first flakes of snow, and then snow and snow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Important elements in German life struggled against this swaggering new autocracy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While speaking, he thrust his hand into the breast of his outer coat, and struggled with some object there that was too large to be got out easily. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But the other fugitive struggled hard; the door was about to yield to his strength. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The most vigorous males, or those which have most successfully struggled with their conditions of life, will generally leave most progeny. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A wild, long laugh rang through the deserted room, and ended in a hysteric sob; she threw herself on the floor, in convulsive sobbing and struggles. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If great criminals told the truth--which, being great criminals, they do not--they would very rarely tell of their struggles against the crime. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I gave Lucy in charge to the Countess's attendant, and then sought repose from my various struggles and impatient regrets. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I need not narrate in detail the further struggles I had, and arguments I used, to get matters regarding the legacy settled as I wished. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Only after many struggles of thought does the individual assert his right as a moral being. Plato. The Republic.
- To whom could the poor little martyr tell these daily struggles and tortures? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Oliver gazed, for a moment, at the struggles of the madman (for such he supposed him to be); and then darted into the house for help. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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