Dictionary Entry
struggle
struggle is a 8-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
- 2intransitive verb
To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.
- 3intransitive verb
To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
- 4noun
A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
- 5noun
Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
- 6noun
Contest; contention; strife.
- 7noun
strenuous effort
"the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her"
- 8noun
an energetic attempt to achieve something
"getting through the crowd was a real struggle"
"he fought a battle for recognition"
Synonyms
- 9noun
an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)--Thomas Paine
"the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"
"police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
- 10verb
be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
"the tribesmen fought each other"
"Siblings are always fighting"
- 11verb
to exert strenuous effort against opposition
"he struggled to get free from the rope"
- 12verb
climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- 13verb
make a strenuous or labored effort
"She struggled for years to survive without welfare"
"He fought for breath"
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