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noun

Struggle 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.

3.

Contest; contention; strife. "An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference."

Synonyms: Endeavor; effort; contest; labor; difficulty.

verb

Struggle v. i. (past & past part. struggled; pres. part. struggling)

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."

Synonyms: To strive; contend; labor; endeavor.

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Etymology of 'Struggle'

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"Struggle" Quotes from Famous Books

... moment with that easeful sense of accomplishment which follows work done that has been a hard struggle in the doing, when she heard a woman's voice on the other side of the hedge say, anxiously, "George!" In a moment the name was repeated, with "Do come indoors! What are ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... which he had cast on my management of the household did not, I am happy to say, prevent me from returning good for evil to the best of my ability, by complying with his request as readily and respectfully as ever. It cost me a struggle with that fallen nature, which we all share in common, before I could suppress my feelings. Being accustomed to self-discipline, I ...

— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins

... continuous work, and idle days neither tend to sobriety nor give pay. Strikes which inflict vast loss upon the workers cause loss to the masters also, and make them less able to pay high wages. But beyond all these, if the Unions were wise, they would struggle against the system of wage-earning, wherever it is new and needless; that is, as far as possible, strive to recover the system of domestic manufacture. For certain new and peculiar industries undoubtedly combine, and large capital is essential; even ...

— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking

... said, gravely, "I cannot make you understand. I carry a burden from which no one can free me. For good or for evil the powers that be have set my feet in the path of the climbers, and for the sake of those whose sufferings I have seen I must struggle upwards to the end. Berenice and the Duchess of Lenchester are two very different persons. I cannot take one into my life without the other. It is because I love her, Hester, that I ...

— A Lost Leader • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... times heard of Pantisocracy; a scheme perfectly harmless in itself, though obnoxious to insuperable objections. The ingenious devisers of this state of society, gradually withdrew from it their confidence; not in the first instance without a struggle; but cool reflection presented so many obstacles, that the plan, of itself, as the understanding expanded, gradually dissolved into "thin air." A friend had suggested the expediency of first trying the plan in Wales, but even this less exceptionable theatre of experiment ...

— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle

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