Definition of struggle

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Struggle (v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body..

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Stretch :: Stretch (n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination..
Breast :: Breast (v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves..
Scramble :: Scramble (n.) The act of jostling and pushing for something desired; eager and unceremonious struggle for what is thrown or held out; as, a scramble for office..
Force :: Force (n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress..
Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend..
Contention :: Contention (n.) A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife..
Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground..
Struggler :: Struggle (n.) Contest; contention; strife.
Warfare :: Warfare (n.) Contest; struggle.
Fate :: Fate (n.) The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him..
Tussle :: Tussle (v. i. & t.) To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with..
Grasp :: Grasp (v. i.) To effect a grasp; to make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive.
Taborite :: Taborite (n.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles..
Struggle :: Struggle (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
Combat :: Combat (v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight..
Victory :: Victory (n.) The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of defeat..
Baffle :: Baffle (v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds..
Contest :: Contest (n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter..
Dispute :: Dispute (v. t.) To struggle against; to resist.
Luctation :: Luctation (n.) Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor.
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