Straggle vs. Struggle — What's the Difference?

To move or proceed slowly or in a scattered or irregular group

To exert muscular energy, as against a material force or mass

To move or lag behind another or others

To be strenuously engaged with a problem, task, or undertaking

To extend or be spread out

To have difficulty or make a strenuous effort doing something

To hang limply or loosely

To move or progress with difficulty

A scattered or disorderly group, as of people or things.

To contend or compete

To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.

To move or place (something) with an effort

To act in a disorderly and irregular way

The act of struggling

An irregular, spread-out group.

A strenuous effort in the face of difficulty

An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.

Strife, contention, or combat

To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.

Something that is difficult to do or achieve

To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.

A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.

To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.

(figurative) Strife, contention, great effort.

To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.

To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.

The act of straggling.

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

A wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons);

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

Wander from a direct or straight course

To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.

Go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way;

To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.

Contest; contention; strife.

An energetic attempt to achieve something;

An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);

Strenuous effort;

Make a strenuous or labored effort;

To exert strenuous effort against opposition;

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

Be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight;