struggle
/ˈstɹʌɡəl/ verb B2- To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend. · During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.
- To have difficulty with something. · One of the doctor’s patients struggled with depression.
- To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. · She struggled to escape from her assailant's grasp.
He/she/it struggles · Past struggled · Past participle struggled · -ing form struggling
Verb forms
- Base form
- struggle
- He/she/it
- struggles
- Past
- struggled
- Past participle
- struggled
- -ing form
- struggling
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I had already come to the conclusion, since there were no signs of a struggle, that the blood which covered the floor had burst from the murderer’s nose in his excitement.
Mycroft Holmes struggled out of his overcoat and subsided into an armchair.
Amusement and chagrin seemed to be struggling for the mastery, until the former suddenly carried the day, and he burst into a hearty laugh.
His hands were clenched and his arms thrown abroad, while his lower limbs were interlocked as though his death struggle had been a grievous one.
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