- (n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object or to avert an evil.
- (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
- (v.i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.i.) To strive or to make efforts, with a twisting or with contortions of the body.
- (n.) Contest; contention; strife.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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