strive
/ˈstɹaɪv/ verb B2- To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently. · He strove to excel.· We strive for the truth.
- To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest. · to strive against fate
- To vie; to compete as a rival.
Plural strive · He/she/it strives · Past strove · Past participle striven · -ing form striving
Verb forms
- Base form
- strive
- He/she/it
- strives
- Past
- strove
- Past participle
- striven
- -ing form
- striving
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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He listened for any sound that might be audible, and every time that he rose to the top of a wave he scanned the horizon, and strove to penetrate the darkness.
A BULL was striving with all his might to squeeze himself through a narrow passage which led to his stall.
Again and again he strove to break away, but I as often headed him off.
I’m striving very hard to overcome it and now that I’m really thirteen perhaps I’ll get on better.”
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