Definition of struggle

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Struggle (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..

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Scuffle :: Scuffle (v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.
Fight :: Fight (v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause..
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..
Conquest :: Conquest (n.) The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace..
Combat :: Combat (n.) A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
Battle :: Battle (v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life..
Scrimmage :: Scrimmage (n.) Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle..
Gainstrive :: Gainstrive (v. t. & i.) To strive or struggle against; to withstand.
Tussle :: Tussle (n.) A struggle; a scuffle.
Decide :: Decide (v. t.) To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle..
Fight :: Fight (v. i.) A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc..
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..
Dispute :: Dispute (v. i.) Contest; struggle; quarrel.
Reluct :: Reluct (v. i.) To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.
Reluctate :: Reluctate (v. i.) To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.
Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite..
Struggle :: Struggle (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
Grappling :: Grappling (n.) A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in grappling for the bear..
Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend..
Throe :: Throe (v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
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