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struggling
strug·gle S0819400 (strŭg′əl)v. strug·gled, strug·gling, strug·gles v.intr.1. To exert muscular energy, as against a material force or mass: struggled with the heavy load.2. a. To be strenuously engaged with a problem, task, or undertaking: struggled for years before breaking through as an actor.b. To have difficulty or make a strenuous effort doing something: struggled to be polite.c. To move or progress with difficulty: struggled up the steep slope.3. To contend or compete: "Right and wrong ... will ever continue to struggle" (Abraham Lincoln).v.tr. To move or place (something) with an effort: struggled the heavy desk into the elevator.n.1. The act of struggling: the rat's struggle to escape the snake's coils.2. A strenuous effort in the face of difficulty: the struggle for civil rights.3. Strife, contention, or combat: armed struggle.4. Something that is difficult to do or achieve: Getting him to agree will be a struggle.
[Middle English struglen.]
strug′gler n.strug′gling·ly adv.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | struggling - engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists"troubled - characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers" |
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