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struggle

English

  1. 🔊 strenuous effort
    “the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her”
  2. 🔊 an energetic attempt to achieve something
    “getting through the crowd was a real struggle”
  3. 🔊 an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
    “the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph”
  4. 🔊 to exert strenuous effort against opposition
    “he struggled to get free from the rope”
  5. 🔊 make a strenuous or labored effort
    “She struggled for years to survive without welfare”
  6. 🔊 be engaged in a fight
    “the tribesmen fought each other”
  7. 🔊 climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

Spanish

  1. 🔊 faena struggle
  2. 🔊 forcejeo struggle
  3. 🔊 pugna struggle
  4. 🔊 puja struggle
  5. 🔊 pujar to struggle
  6. 🔊 argüende struggle, dispute
  7. 🔊 forcejear to struggle, grapple, wrestle
  8. 🔊 luchar to struggle, to strive, to contend, to grapple
  9. 🔊 lucha struggle, battle (in the figurative sense), strife, striving

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