Thesaurus: struggle

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1. v. i. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
2. v. i. 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.
3. v. i. To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
4. n. A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
5. n. Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
6. n. Contest; contention; strife.
7. n. an energetic attempt to achieve something
8. n. an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
9. n. strenuous effort
10. v. make a strenuous or labored effort
11. v. to exert strenuous effort against opposition
12. v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling