Strife vs. Struggle — What's the Difference?

Heated, often violent conflict or disagreement.

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

A conflict or quarrel

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

Contention or competition between rivals.

To have difficulty or make a strenuous effort doing something

Striving; earnest endeavor; hard work.

To move or progress with difficulty

Exertion or contention for superiority, either by physical or intellectual means.

To contend or compete

Bitter conflict, sometimes violent.

To move or place (something) with an effort

(colloquial) A trouble of any kind.

The act of struggling

(obsolete) That which is contended against; occasion of contest.

A strenuous effort in the face of difficulty

The act of striving; earnest endeavor.

Strife, contention, or combat

Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.

Something that is difficult to do or achieve

Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.

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

That which is contended against; occasion of contest.

(figurative) Strife, contention, great effort.

Lack of agreement or harmony

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

Bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension

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

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

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.

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;