| NOUN | act | struggle, battle | an energetic attempt to achieve something |
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| act | struggle, conflict, battle | an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | |
| act | struggle | strenuous effort | |
| VERB | social | struggle, fight | make a strenuous or labored effort |
| contact | struggle | to exert strenuous effort against opposition | |
| motion | struggle, clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter | climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | |
| competition | struggle, contend, fight | be engaged in a fight |
| Sounds | strah'gahl | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | An energetic attempt to achieve something. | |
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| Example | "getting through the crowd was a real struggle" | |
| Synonym | battle | |
| Narrower | duel | Any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups) |
| joust, tilt | A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | |
| scramble, scuffle | An unceremonious and disorganized struggle | |
| Broader | attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try | earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish / accomplish something |
| Spanish | batalla, esfuerzo, lucha, pugna, puja | |
| Catalan | afany, batalla, lluita, pugna | |
| Verbs | struggle | make a strenuous or labored effort |
| Meaning | An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals). | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | conflict, battle | |
| Narrower | class struggle, class war, class warfare | conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes) |
| feud | A bitter quarrel between two parties | |
| fight, fighting, combat, scrap | The act of fighting | |
| pacification, counterinsurgency | actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | |
| rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising | organized opposition to authority | |
| strife | bitter conflict / conflict | |
| tug-of-war | Any hard struggle between equally matched groups | |
| turf war | A bitter struggle for territory or power or control or rights | |
| war, warfare | An active struggle between competing entities | |
| Broader | group action | action taken by a group of people |
| Spanish | batalla, conflicto, lucha, pugna | |
| Catalan | batalla, conflicte, lluita, pugna | |
| Verbs | struggle | be engaged in a fight |
| Meaning | strenuous effort. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her" | |
| Narrower | wrestle, wrestling, grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle | The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat |
| Broader | effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat | Use of physical or mental energy |
| Spanish | lucha | |
| Catalan | lluita | |
| Verbs | struggle | to exert strenuous effort against opposition |
| struggle | climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | |
| struggle | make a strenuous or labored effort | |
| Meaning | make a strenuous or labored effort. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "She struggled for years to survive without welfare" | |
| Synonym | fight | |
| Narrower | flounder | Behave awkwardly |
| tug, labor, labour, push, drive | strive and make an effort to reach / reach a goal / goal | |
| Broader | try, seek, attempt, essay, assay | make an effort or attempt |
| Spanish | batallar, luchar, pugnar | |
| Catalan | batallar, lluitar, pugnar | |
| Nouns | struggle | strenuous effort |
| struggle | an energetic attempt to achieve something | |
| struggler | a person who struggles / struggles with difficulties or with great effort | |
| Meaning | To exert strenuous effort against opposition. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "he struggled to get free from the rope" | |
| Broader | endeavor, endeavour, strive | attempt by employing effort |
| Nouns | struggle | strenuous effort |
| struggler | a person who struggles / struggles with difficulties or with great effort | |
| Meaning | climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter | |
| Broader | climb | Move with difficulty, by grasping |
| Spanish | arrastrarse, chisporrotear, despellejar, encaramarse, luchar, trepar a gatas, trepar | |
| Catalan | pujar | |
| Nouns | struggle | strenuous effort |
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