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

1. intransitive verb. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
2. intransitive 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.
3. intransitive verb. To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
4. noun. A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
5. noun. Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
6. noun. Contest; contention; strife.
7. noun. strenuous effort

   "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her"

8. noun. an energetic attempt to achieve something

   "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"

   "he fought a battle for recognition"

   Synonyms: battle

9. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: battle, conflict

10. verb. be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

    "the tribesmen fought each other"

    "Siblings are always fighting"

    Synonyms: contend, fight

11. verb. to exert strenuous effort against opposition

    "he struggled to get free from the rope"

12. verb. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

    Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter

13. verb. make a strenuous or labored effort

    "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"

    "He fought for breath"

    Synonyms: fight

Synonyms

battle, conflict, contend, fight, clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in struggle:

gurglets

Common word forms

struggled, struggler, struggles, struggling

Words from these letters

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