striving
/ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/ noun C1- Effort; the act of one who strives.
Plural strivings
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I’m striving very hard to overcome it and now that I’m really thirteen perhaps I’ll get on better.”
She sat intently at work, striving to be composed, and without daring to lift up her eyes, till anxious curiosity carried them to the face of her sister as the servant was approaching the door.
While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: “Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?”
A BULL was striving with all his might to squeeze himself through a narrow passage which led to his stall.
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