strive

[Strive]

To strive is to endeavor, reach, or strain for something above or beyond. We strive for self improvement, a better world, or success in general.

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To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

Verb
to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear"

Verb
attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"


v. i.
To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

v. i.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.

v. i.
To vie; to compete; to be a rival.

n.
An effort; a striving.

n.
Strife; contention.


Strive

Strive , v. i. [imp. Strove ; p. p. Striven (Rarely, Strove); p. pr. & vb. n. Striving.] [OF. estriver; of Teutonic origin, and akin to G. streben, D. streven, Dan. str'91be, Sw. str'84fva. Cf. Strife.] 1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
Was for this his ambition strove To equal C'91sar first, and after, Jove?
2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth. Chaucer.
My Spirit shall not always strive with man.
Why dost thou strive against him?
Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
3. To vie; to compete; to be a rival. Chaucer.
[Not] that sweet grove Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this paradise Of Eden strive.
Syn. -- To contend; vie; struggle; endeavor; aim.

Strive

Strive, n. 1. An effort; a striving. [R.] Chapman. 2. Strife; contention. [Obs.] Wyclif (luke xxi. 9).

To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

An effort; a striving.

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Usage Examples

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.

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Other Usage Examples

God always strives together with those who strive.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul.

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