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
From the library
Then he grew angry but knew better than to struggle, and then he began to think.
In a trice Anne was out of the house and flying down to the hollow, astonishment and hope struggling in her expressive eyes.
Their first subject was her sister; and she was more grieved than astonished to hear, in reply to her minute inquiries, that though Jane always struggled to support her spirits, there were periods of dejection.
“In vain have I struggled.
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