strive

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For the verb: "to strive"

Simple Past: strove
Past Participle: striven

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strive/strʌɪv/
verb (past strove or strived; past part. striven or strived) make great efforts.

■ (strive against) fight vigorously against.

– derivatives
striver noun.
– origin ME: shortening of OFr. estriver; rel. to estrif ‘strife’.
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