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Noun struggle has 3 senses
- struggle, battle - an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition"
--1 is a kind of attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
--1 has particulars: duel; scramble, scuffle; joust, tilt
- conflict, struggle, battle - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
--2 is a kind of group action
--2 has particulars: | | class struggle, class war, class warfare; rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising; pacification, counterinsurgency; strife; tug-of-war; turf war; fight, fighting, combat, scrap; feud; war, warfare |
- struggle - strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her"
--3 is a kind of effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
--3 has particulars:
Verb struggle has 4 senses
- fight, struggle - make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"
--1 is one way to try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
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- struggle - to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope"
--2 is one way to endeavor, endeavour, strive
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- clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter - climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
--3 is one way to climb
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- fight, struggle - be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"
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