Word Meanings - STRUGGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike, Dan. stryge, G. straucheln 1. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. 2. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to

Additional info about word: STRUGGLE

to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike, Dan. stryge, G. straucheln 1. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. 2. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. Lincoln. 3. To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress. 'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. Dryden. Syn. -- To strive; contend; labor; endeavor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRUGGLE)

• Combat
• Encounter
• conflict
• contention
• struggle
• contest
• engagement
• arms
• battle
• Contend
• Strive
• compete
• cope
• dispute
• vie
• grapple
• argue
• maintain
• disagree
• wrangle
• Cope
• strive
• Fight
• Battle
• combat
• action
• encounter
• Revolt
• int
• Rebel
• kick
• resist
• rise
• recalcitrate

Related words: (words related to STRUGGLE)

• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• REBELLOW
  To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
• COMBAT
  To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• ARGUE
  1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
• STRUGGLER
  One who struggles.
• DISAGREER
  One who disagrees. Hammond.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• COMBATTANT
  In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• MAINTAINOR
  One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• CONFLICTIVE
  Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton.
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• DISPUTE
  To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. (more info) from L. disputare, disputatum; dis- + putare to clean; hence, fig.,
• STRIVE
  1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley. 2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest;
• COMBATABLE
  Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• ENGRAPPLE
  To grapple.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• EMBATTLEMENT
  1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
• CEREBELLAR; CEREBELLOUS
  Pertaining to the cerebellum.