strudel
strudel

struggle


Definition: Meaning of, struggle in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈstrʌɡ(ə)l /

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Prsesent Past Past Participle
struggle struggled struggled
Present Participle Third Person Singular
struggling struggles
[intransitive]
  1. to try extremely hard to achieve something, even though it is very difficult
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  2. to fight someone who is attacking you or holding you, especially so that you can escape
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  3. if two people struggle, they fight each other for something, especially something one of them is holding
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  4. to move somewhere with great difficulty
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  5. to be likely to fail, even though you are trying very hard
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struggle struggles
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  1. a long hard fight to get freedom, political rights etc
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  2. a long period of time in which you try to deal with a difficult problem
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  3. a fight between two people for something, or an attempt by one person to escape from the other
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  4. be a struggle (for somebody) if something is a struggle, you find it very difficult to do
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struggle used in phrases

  • Popular Struggle Front (noun)
    1. a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah; staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border
  • Revolutionary People's Struggle (noun)
    1. an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974; a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States
  • class struggle (noun)
    1. in MARXIST THEORY, political opposition and the fight for economic power between CAPITALIST s (= the owners of property, factories etc) and the PROLETARIAT (= the workers)
  • hand-to-hand struggle (noun)
    1. the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat
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