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struggle
n. strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her"
struggle, battle
n. an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition"
Verbs (13)
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struggle
v. to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope"
struggle, engage in a struggle
v. be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"
contend, fight, struggle
v. be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country"
clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter
v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
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Fuzzynyms (104)
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strive, reach, strain
v. to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear"
buck, go against
v. resist; "buck the trend"
battle, combat
v. battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget"
contest, contend, repugn
v. to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; "They contested the outcome of the race"
deal
v. behave in a certain way towards others; "He deals fairly with his employees"
treat
v. regard or consider in a specific way; "I treated his advances as a joke"
manage, deal, care, handle
v. be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old"
continue, go on, persist in, go along
v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"
tolerate
v. have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition; "The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him"
prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure
v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"
persevere, persist, hang in, hang on, hold on
v. be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"
insist, assert
v. assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society"
insist, take a firm stand
v. be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!"
keep, maintain, hold
v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"
assert, asseverate, maintain
v. state categorically
work, act
v. have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice?"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water"
muss, tussle
v. make messy or untidy; "the child mussed up my hair"
twist, wriggle, squirm, wrestle, worm, writhe
v. to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"
meet, encounter, play, take on
v. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"
wrestle
v. combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force; "He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority"
weather, endure, brave, brave out
v. face and withstand with courage; "She braved the elements"
confront, face up, face
v. deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
argue, reason
v. present reasons and arguments
quibble
v. evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
wrangle
v. herd and care for; "wrangle horses"
scuffle, tussle
v. fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters; "the drunken men started to scuffle"
disagree, differ, dissent, take issue
v. be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions"
object
v. be averse to or express disapproval of; "My wife objects to modern furniture"
oppose
v. be against; express opposition to; "We oppose the ban on abortion"
hustle
v. pressure or urge someone into an action
dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot
v. run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
fly
v. move quickly or suddenly; "He flew about the place"
scramble
v. to move hurriedly; "The friend scrambled after them"
scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle
v. to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"
resurrect, rise, uprise
v. return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise"
climb, climb up, mount, go up
v. go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"
intensify
v. make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
crawl, creep
v. move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
v. show submission or fear
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uphold
v. stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals
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