struggle

Definitions

1. A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task
2. A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
3. fight, brawl
4. Strife, contention, great effort
5. Strife, contention, great effort.
   figuratively
6. To move or place (something) with an effort: struggled the heavy desk into the elevator.
7. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend
8. To strive in opposition:battle, combat, contend, duel, fight, tilt, war, wrestle.
9. quarrel, argument
10. To have difficulty with something
11. an act of struggling, or a fight. The struggle for independence was long and hard. worsteling كِفاح، نِضال битка luta boj der Kampf kamp αγώναςlucha võitlus مبارزه kamppailu lutteמאבק हाथापाई, संघर्ष borba, naprezanje küzdelem perjuangan barátta lotta 斗争 고군분투 kova cīņa perjuangan worstelingkamp, strevwalka مبارزه luta a se lupta (pentru) борьба boj boj borba kamp การต่อสู้ mücadele 鬥爭 боротьба; зусилля جد و جہد cuộc đấu tranh 斗争
12. fight, bout
13. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body
14. to have only just enough money to live. net-net genoeg geld verdien يكون لديْه ما يَكْفيه للحياة فقط карам я някакси subsistir žít z ruky do úst sich durchkämpfen leve fra hånden i munden τα φέρνω βόλτα τσίμα τσίμα vivir con estrecheces, subsistir penosamente/a duras penas/con dificultad toime tulema پول كافي داشتن براي زندگي pinnistellä eteenpäin subsister tant bien que mal לְהַחזִיק מַעֲמָד प्रयत्न के समानान्तर preživljavati, živjeti s malo novca tengődik hidup pas-pasan skrimta, basla (tir...
15. third-person singular present indicative
16. To exert muscular energy, as against a material force or mass: struggled with the heavy load.
17. To be strenuously engaged with a problem, task, or undertaking: struggled for years before breaking through as an actor.
18. To contend or compete: "Right and wrong ... will ever continue to struggle" (Abraham Lincoln).
19. The act of struggling: the rat's struggle to escape the snake's coils.
20. A strenuous effort in the face of difficulty: the struggle for civil rights.
21. Strife, contention, or combat: armed struggle.

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Examples

“The struggle⟳ with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked night and day to supplement it.”

“R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelenting struggle⟳ and change⟳.”

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