struggle

[strugĀ·gle]

Something that can only be accomplished with great effort is said to be a struggle. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader in the Civil Rights struggle. Alice Paul was a leader in the struggle for a woman's right to vote.

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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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"

Noun
an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"

Verb
be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"

Verb
to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope"

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Verb
climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

Verb
make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"


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.


Struggle

Strug"gle , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Struggled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Struggling .] [OE. strogelen; cf. Icel. strjka to stroke, to beat, to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike, Dan. stryge, G. straucheln to stumble. Cf. Stroll.] 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.
Syn. -- To strive; contend; labor; endeavor.

Struggle

Strug"gle , 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. Macaulay. 3. Contest; contention; strife.
An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference.
Syn. -- Endeavor; effort; contest; labor; difficulty.

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

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Usage Examples

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

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Other Usage Examples

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.

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