intransitive verb. To exert much effort or energy; endeavor.

intransitive verb. To struggle or fight forcefully; contend.

noun. A striving; an effort; a strife.

To make strenuous effort; endeavor earnestly; labor hard; do one's endeavor; try earnestly and persistently: followed by an infinitive: as, he strove hard to win the prize; to strive to excel; to strive to pay one's way.

To contend; straggle; battle; fight: followed by with, against, or for: as, to strive against fate; to strive for the truth.

To vie; contend for preëminence: with with.

To quarrel or contend with one another; be at variance one with another, or come to be so; be in contention, dispute, or altercation.

To oppose by contrariety of qualities: with with.

Synonyms Undertake, Endeavor, etc.(see attempt); seek, aim, toil.

To compete, contest.

To dispute, wrangle.

noun. An effort; a striving.

noun. Strife; contention.

intransitive verb. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

intransitive verb. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed.

intransitive verb. To vie; to compete; to be a rival.

verb. To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

verb. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.

noun. An effort; a striving.

noun. strife; contention

verb. attempt by employing effort

verb. to exert much effort or energy

""Full unity, for which the Lord prayed and for which all His disciples must tirelessly strive, is linked to the very life and mission of the Church in the world", he said."

contend  quarrel  

Clive  Dr  Dr.  alive  arrive  

aspiration  crave  drudgery  endeavor  endeavour  

agonize  aim  aim  aim to  assay  

striven  strove  

strived  striven  strives  striving  strove