STRUGGLE
\stɹˈʌɡə͡l], \stɹˈʌɡəl], \s_t_ɹ_ˈʌ_ɡ_əl]\
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an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
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be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"
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make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"
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strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her"
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to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope"
By Princeton University
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an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
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be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"
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make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"
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strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her"
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to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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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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To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
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A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
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Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
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Contest; contention; strife.
By Oddity Software
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A violent effort or endeavor; contest; strife; sometimes, war or battle.
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To put forth great effort; contend; strive.
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Struggler.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To make great efforts with contortions of the body: to make great exertions: to contend: to labor in pain: to be in agony or distress.
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A violent effort with contortions of the body: great labor: agony.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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