Definition of struggle

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Struggle (n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil..

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Fight :: Fight (v. i.) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
Battle :: Battle (v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life..
Encounter :: Encounter (adv.) To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth..
Wrestle :: Wrestle (n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
Contention :: Contention (n.) A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife..
Struggle :: Struggle (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
Flounce :: Flounce (v. i.) To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure..
Dispute :: Dispute (v. t.) To struggle against; to resist.
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To contend; to struggle.
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..
Gainstrive :: Gainstrive (v. t. & i.) To strive or struggle against; to withstand.
Agonize :: Agonize (v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
Struggle :: Struggle (v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body..
Effort :: Effort (n.) An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall..
Agony :: Agony (n.) The last struggle of life; death struggle.
Muss :: Muss (n.) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle..
Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite..
Throe :: Throe (v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
Scrimmage :: Scrimmage (n.) The struggle in the rush lines after the ball is put in play.
Scrimmage :: Scrimmage (n.) Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle..
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