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struggle Definition

strug·gle (strug′əl)

intransitive verb -·gled, -·gling

  1. to contend or fight violently with an opponent
  2. to make great efforts or attempts; strive; labor
  3. to make one's way with difficulty to struggle through a thicket

Etymology: ME strogelen < ?

transitive verb

  1. to bring, put, do, etc. by struggling
  2. to make (one's way) with difficulty

noun

  1. great effort or a series of efforts; violent exertion
  2. conflict; strife; contention

struggle Related Forms
strug′·gler noun
struggle Synonyms

struggle

n.

  1. A fight

    conflict, contest, strife; see fight 1. See syn. study at fight.

  2. Effort

    exertion, strain, travail; see effort 1, 2.

struggle Synonyms

struggle

v.

strive, grapple, cope, try; see fight 1. See syn. study at try.

struggle Usage Examples

Infinitive complement

  • cope: There are no notes, no player names to refer to, and the camera struggled to cope with the blinding rain.
  • survive: Such a man would struggle to survive in today's world.

Preposition: against

  • imperialism: Coalition with the bourgeoisie leads to the proletariat's abnegating the revolutionary struggle against imperialism.
  • fascism: In the struggle against fascism prior to the 1939 war Helen was Secretary of the anti-fascist organization in Glasgow.
  • oppression: I support the migrant ink workers in their struggle against capitalist oppression 12.
  • tsarism: At the same time they were prepared, under certain conditions, to make temporary agreements with the Socialist-Revolutionaries in the struggle against tsarism.
  • capitalism: In recent struggles against capitalism, anarchist groupings have taken a prominent role.

Preposition: for

  • liberation: REMEMBERING AND CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF ROSE STRONG During our struggle for liberation, we have lost many comrades along the way.
  • socialism: We will stand shoulder to should in the defense of their rights and in furthering the struggle for socialism.
  • survival: Zhivago is a poet, surgeon, husband and lover struggling for survival.
  • independence: It became a major weapon in Mahatma Gandhi's struggle for Indian independence.

Adjective modifier

  • uphill: Unions ' uphill struggle This evidence confirms the uphill struggle which unions face in Britain today.
  • armed: In 2000, the government passed a law giving all fighters who renounced the armed struggle complete amnesty.
  • revolutionary: The Indian bourgeoisie is incapable of leading a revolutionary struggle.
  • titanic: United found themselves embroiled in a titanic struggle against... Exeter City.
  • bitter: The long years of bitter struggle have come to an end.
  • ideological: Apparently, he is not opposed to an ideological struggle.

Noun used with modifier

  • liberation: The government of East Timor is predominantly made up of veterans of the country's national liberation struggle.
  • class: Forward your hips achieve their identities class struggle abolish the us.
  • epic: The people of this village once endured an epic struggle.
struggle Quotes

And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

—Arnold, Matthew

A woman can look both moral and excitingöif she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

—Ferber, Edna

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. But weel wat I they coudna bring Waur sounds frae hell.

—Ferber, Edna

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is a struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world standsmoment by moment on the razor-edge ofdangerand must be fought foröwhether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

The most important thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking partöjust as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

—Coubertin, Pierre de, Baron

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

—Malthus,Thomas Robert

Say not the struggle naught availeth The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

—Clough, Arthur Hugh

But the adventure, the conquest of an unknown country, thestruggle against theimpossible, all have a fascination which draws me with an irresistible force.

—Hedin, Sven Anders

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

—Shaw, George Bernard

We should never make a god out of form.We should struggle for form onlyas long as it serves as a means of expression for the inner sound.

—Kandinsky,Wassily

Notforalltheuniversecontainswould I, inthestrugglefor what I conceive to be my country's cause, consent to the effusion of a single drop of human blood, except myown.

—O'Connell, Daniel known as  the Liberator

My draft-dodging father proved that in the struggle for survival the fittest are most likely to get killed off.

—Roth, Guenther

La lutte elle-me"  me vers les sommets suffit a'   remplir un coeur d'homme. Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux. The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart.One must imagine that Sisyphus is happy.

—Camus, Albert

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

—Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

—Loos, Adolf

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

   When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

—Burke, Edmund

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

—LinYutang

What men or Gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

—Keats,John