| VERB | social | strive, endeavor, endeavour | attempt by employing effort |
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| competition | strive, reach, strain | to exert much effort or energy |
| Sounds | stray'v | |
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| Rhymes | alive ... thrive: 23 rhymes with ayv... | |
| Meaning | attempt by employing effort. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | |
| Synonyms | endeavor, endeavour | |
| Narrower | buck | To strive with determination |
| struggle | To exert strenuous effort against opposition | |
| take pains, be at pains | try very hard to do something | |
| Broader | try, seek, attempt, essay, assay | make an effort or attempt |
| Spanish | afanarse, empeñarse, esforzarse, luchar, procurar | |
| Catalan | esforçar-se | |
| Nouns | striving | an effortful attempt to attain a goal / goal |
| Meaning | To exert much effort or energy. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | reach, strain | |
| Narrower | extend oneself | strain to the utmost |
| kill oneself, overexert oneself | strain oneself more than is healthy | |
| trouble oneself, trouble, bother, inconvenience oneself | Take the trouble to do something | |
| Broader | tug, labor, labour, push, drive | strive and make an effort to reach / reach a goal / goal |
| Spanish | esforzarse, esforzar | |
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