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Meaning of gainstrive | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To strive against; to resist, oppose.
obsolete, transitive
To resist; to fight back.
intransitive, obsolete

Examples

“For on the spoile of women he doth live, / Whose bodies chast, when ever in his powre / He may them catch unable to gainstrive, / He with his shamefull lust doth first deflowre, / And afterwardes themselves doth cruelly devoure.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

gainstrived gainstrives gainstriving gainstrove gait gaited