struggle
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
struggle/ˈstrʌɡl/
▶verb
- 1 make forceful efforts to get free.
- 2 strive under difficult circumstances to do something.
■ have difficulty in gaining recognition or a living.
- 3 contend or compete.
- 4 make one's way with difficulty.
- 1 an act of struggling.
- 2 a very difficult task.
– derivatives
struggler noun.
struggler noun.
– origin ME: frequentative, perh. of imitative origin.
'struggle' also found in these Oxford entries:
antagonize
- battle
- class consciousness
- class struggle
- clinch
- conflict
- contend
- dogfight
- encounter
- fight
- flail
- founder
- freedom fighter
- gigantomachy
- grapple
- hardscrabble
- ineluctable
- jihad
- jockey
- jostle
- Kulturkampf
- leeway
- lock
- losing battle
- nakfa
- rat race
- reluctant
- resist
- revolution
- scrabble
- scrimmage
- scuffle
- startle
- Theatre of the Absurd
- theomachy
- throes
- tussle
- uphill
- wrangle
- wrestle
