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Struggle   /strˈəgəl/   Listen
Struggle

noun
1.
An energetic attempt to achieve something.  Synonym: battle.  "He fought a battle for recognition"
2.
An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).  Synonyms: battle, conflict.  "Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
3.
Strenuous effort.
verb
(past & past part. struggled; pres. part. struggling)
1.
Make a strenuous or labored effort.  Synonym: fight.  "He fought for breath"
2.
To exert strenuous effort against opposition.
3.
Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.  Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter.
4.
Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight.  Synonyms: contend, fight.  "Siblings are always fighting" , "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"



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"Struggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... of modern poetry, and he may therefore claim a place in this connection. His poem is the first great step from Gothic darkness and barbarism; and the struggle of thought in it, to burst the thraldom in which the human mind had been so long held, is felt in every page. He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world; and saw the glories of antiquity dawning through the abyss of time, while revelation ...
— English literary criticism • Various
... unceasingly between Clive and the fort. In this the garrison had the best of it, silenced some of the English guns, killed many of the assailants, and would certainly have beaten off the land attack, had the fleet not been able to interfere in the struggle. ...
— With Clive in India - Or, The Beginnings of an Empire • G. A. Henty
... has been a tough struggle; but I knew that I had the oil. Been flat broke for months. Had to borrow my boy's savings for food and shelter. Well, this is the way it runs." Warrington told it simply, as if it were a ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath
... nearer to the common level of the useful citizen,—no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who, if he knows anything, knows how little he knows. The ministers are good talkers, only the struggle between nature and grace makes some of 'em a little awkward occasionally. The women do their best to spoil 'em, as they do the poets; you find it very pleasant to be spoiled, no doubt; so do they. Now and ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... the sheriffs that two knights be sent from each county to confer with the barons and clergy relative to the subsidies which should be accorded the crown. The desired vote of supplies was refused and the long-brewing contest between the king and the barons broke in civil war. But during the struggle that ensued the foundations of Parliament were still more securely laid. Following the king's defeat at Lewes, in 1264, Simon de Montfort, leader of the barons, convened a parliament composed of not only barons and clergy but also four knights ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg


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