struggle

v

1. contend, wrestle, grapple, tussle, scuffle; battle, fight, combat, war, wage war, skirmish; join battle with, set to, engage, encounter; clash, joust, tilt at, duel, cross swords with, fence; spar, brawl, scrap, box, fall to blows; compete, vie, rival, contest; oppose, challenge, pit oneself against, play against, take on, face; dispute, debate, argue, wrangle, altercate, squab-ble, quarrel, spat.

2. endeavor, labor, try hard, do one's best, do all one can or that lies within one, Sl. do it up brown, set at [s.t.] with a will; work hard, burn the midnight oil, burn the candle at both ends, work day and night, work like a Trojan, keep one's shoulder to the wheel; beat one's head against a wall, fight a losing battle, get nowhere fast; try, make an effort, take pains, bestir oneself; attempt, tackle, take on, essay, undertake, work at, go about; seek to, venture, make a bold push.

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3. labor, work, toil, travail, sweat of one's brow, moil, drudgery; exertion, effort, strain, laboriousness, plodding, Inf. plugging, pegging; industry, industriousness, operoseness, diligence; endeavor, striving, try, attempt, essay, effort, nisus, conatus.

4. contention, conflict, strife, hostilities, combat, war; fight, clash, skirmish, battle; fray, affray, fracas, melee, brawl, scuffle, tussle, tug of war; set-to, scrap, fisticuffs, slugfest; rivalry, competition; wrangle, broil, quarrel, feud.

5. task, chore, Inf. hassle, Sl. drag; grind, Inf. rat race; bother, worry, trouble, trial.