Struggle

/ˈstɹʌɡəl/ · noun

Meaning

A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task..

Definitions by Sense

1. A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
2. (figurative) Strife, contention, great effort.
3. (intransitive) To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
4. (intransitive) To have difficulty with something.
5. (intransitive) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

Example Sentences

The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked night and day to supplement it.

R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelenting struggle and change.

During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.

Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.

England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.

Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.

Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.

The sheriff’s office released a compilation of bodycam footage Friday from deputies at the scene that shows them handcuffing Earl and pinning him down for more than 20 minutes as he struggles and repeatedly shouts for help.

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• struggles
• stroggell
• strogell
• struggling
• struggled

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