STRUGGLE

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

2.
v.

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 [Gettysburg] far above our power to add or detract. Lincoln.

3.
v.

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.

4.
n.

A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

5.
n.

Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil. Macaulay.

6.
n.

Contest; contention; strife. An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference. Addison.

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