intransitive verb. To exert muscular energy, as against a material force or mass.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To be strenuously engaged with a problem, task, or undertaking.

intransitive verb. To have difficulty or make a strenuous effort doing something.

intransitive verb. To move or progress with difficulty.

intransitive verb. To contend or compete.

intransitive verb. To move or place (something) with an effort.

noun. The act of struggling.

noun. A strenuous effort in the face of difficulty.

noun. Strife, contention, or combat.

noun. Something that is difficult to do or achieve.

To put forth violent effort, as in an emergency or as a result of intense excitation; act or strive strenuously against some antagonistic force or influence; be engaged in an earnest effort or conflict; labor or contend urgently, as for some object: used chiefly of persons, but also, figuratively, of things.

Synonyms Strive, etc. (see attempt); toil.

noun. A violent effort; a strenuous or straining exertion; a strenuous endeavor to accomplish, avoid, or escape something; a contest with some opposing force: as, a struggle to get free; the struggle of death; a struggle with poverty.

noun. Synonyms Endeavor. Effort, Exertion, Pains, Labor. Struggle. See strife. The above are in the order of strength.

noun. A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

noun. Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.

noun. Contest; contention; strife.

intransitive verb. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

intransitive verb. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly.

intransitive verb. To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

noun. strife, contention, great effort

verb. to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.

verb. make a strenuous or labored effort

noun. an energetic attempt to achieve something

noun. an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

noun. strenuous effort

verb. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

verb. to exert strenuous effort against opposition

verb. be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

"The great principle at the bottom of everything in Nature is that the fittest survives: or, as I think it is better to say it, in any particular conflict or struggle that thing survives which is the fittest to survive _in this particular struggle_."

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assail  attack  bandy  battle  bear down  

juggle  smuggle  snuggle  

adventure  affair  conflict  contest  effort  

Kilkenny cats  action  aerial combat  affray  agonize  

struggled  struggles  struggling