STRUGGLE meaning: Effortful attempt to overcome difficulties

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word struggle:

General (32 matching dictionaries)

struggle: Merriam-Webster.com
struggle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
struggle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
struggle, the struggle: Collins English Dictionary
struggle: Vocabulary.com
Struggle, struggle: Wordnik
struggle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
struggle: Wiktionary
struggle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
struggle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
struggle: Infoplease Dictionary
struggle: Dictionary.com
struggle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
struggle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Struggle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
struggle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
struggle: Rhymezone
struggle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
struggle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
struggle: Free Dictionary
struggle: Mnemonic Dictionary
struggle: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
struggle: Dictionary/thesaurus
struggle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

struggle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

struggle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

struggle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

struggle, struggle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Struggle, the struggle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Strife, contention, great effort.
▸ verb:  To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
▸ verb:  To have difficulty with something.
▸ verb:  To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

Similar:

clamber, conflict, scramble, sputter, fight, battle, shinny, skin, shin, striving, more...

Opposite:

ease, simplicity, peace, comfort, success

Types:

emotional struggle, financial struggle, mental struggle, physical struggle, social struggle, political struggle, spiritual struggle, more...

Phrases:

the struggle, struggle for, struggle against, struggle with, class struggle, more...

Adjectives:

long, political, armed, great, revolutionary, constant, desperate, bitter, hard, national, fierce

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