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strugglesnounpl. of struggle a forceful effort to reach a goal or objectivea performer's long struggle to achieve success battles, fights, frays, scrabbles, throes efforts, exertions, labors, pains, troubles, worksdrudgeries, grinds, sweats, toils, travailscombats, conflicts, contests, strifes, tussles, warfares, warsattempts, endeavors, essays, tries a physical dispute between opposing individuals or groupsthere was a struggle between the armed robber and the shopkeeper, and the gun went off battles, clashes, combats, conflicts, contests, dustups, fights, fracases(or British fracas), frays, hassles, scraps, scrimmages, scrums, scuffles, skirmishes, tussles pitched battles, rough-and-tumblesaffrays(chiefly British), battles royal(or battle royals or battles royale or battle royales), brawls, broils, donnybrooks, free-for-alls, melees(also mêlées), mix-ups, ruckuses, ructionsblows, fistfights, fisticuffs, grapples, handgrips, punch-outs, punch-ups(chiefly British), slugfestsconfrontations, duels, face-offs, joustsaltercations, argle-bargles(chiefly British), arguments, argy-bargies(chiefly British), contretemps, controversies, cross fires, disagreements, disputes, fallings-out(or falling-outs), kickups, misunderstandings, quarrels, rows, spats, squabbles, tangles, tiffs, wranglescatfights truces an earnest effort for superiority or victory over anotherher staunchest supporters in her struggle for the office ball games, battles, combats, competitions, conflicts, confrontations, contentions, contests, dogfights, duels, face-offs, grapples, matches, rivalries, strifes, sweepstakes(also sweep-stake), tugs-of-war, warfares, wars horse races, nail-bitersshowdownsclashes, collisions, discords, frictionsarguments, controversies, debates, disagreements, disputations, disputes, dissensions(also dissentions), quarrels, rows, wrangles concords, harmonies, peaces strugglesverbpresent tense third-person singular of struggleto proceed or act clumsily or ineffectuallyeach week I would struggle through my piano lesson, keenly aware that I wasn't getting any better blunders, bumbles, flogs(British), flounders, limps, lumbers, plods, stumbles, trudges jogs, shambles, shuffleswallows, weltersfalters, lurches, reels, staggers, sways, teeters, tottersfumbles, muddles coasts, flies, glides, kilts, sails, zips, zooms to devote serious and sustained effortthe financially strapped couple struggled to make ends meet bangs away, beavers (away), digs (away), drudges, endeavors, fags, grubs, humps, hustles, labors, moils, pegs (away), plods, plows, plugs, slaves, slogs, strains, strives, sweats, toils, travails, tugs, works applies (oneself), buckles (down), digs in, hammers (away), knuckles down, pitches inattacks, drivesessays, triesexercises, exerts, overexerts, overworksekes out, grinds (out), puts out, scrabbles, scratchestrudges, wades sweats blood breaks, eases (up), lets up, slackensbums, chills, dallies, dillydallies, footles, goldbricks, goofs (off), hacks (around), hangs (around or out), idles, lazes, loafs, lounges, shirks, slacks (off), vegges out(or veges out)basks, lolls, relaxes, reposes, rests, unwindsdabbles, doodles, fools around, fribbles, goofs (around), hangs, hangs about(British), messes around, monkeys (around), plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles |