Strive vs. Struggle

Striveverb

To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

‘He strove to excel.’; ‘to strive for the truth’;

Strugglenoun

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

Striveverb

To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.

‘to strive against fate’;

Strugglenoun

(figurative) Strife, contention, great effort.

Striveverb

To vie; to compete as a rival.

Struggleverb

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

‘During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.’;

Strivenoun

(obsolete) An effort; a striving.

Struggleverb

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

‘She struggled to escape from her assailant's grasp.’;

Strivenoun

(obsolete) strife; contention

Struggleverb

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

Striveverb

To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

‘Was for this his ambition stroveTo equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove?’;

Struggleverb

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.

‘The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it [Gettysburg] far above our power to add or detract.’;

Striveverb

To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; - followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.

‘My Spirit shall not always strive with man.’; ‘Why dost thou strive against him?’; ‘Now private pity strove with public hate,Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.’;

Struggleverb

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

‘'T is wisdom to beware,And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.’;

Striveverb

To vie; to compete; to be a rival.

‘[Not] that sweet groveOf Daphne, by Orontes and the inspiredCastalian spring, might with this paradiseOf Eden strive.’;

Strugglenoun

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

Strivenoun

An effort; a striving.

Strugglenoun

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

Strivenoun

Strife; contention.

Strugglenoun

Contest; contention; strife.

‘An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference.’;

Striveverb

attempt by employing effort;

‘we endeavor to make our customers happy’;

Strugglenoun

an energetic attempt to achieve something;

‘getting through the crowd was a real struggle’; ‘he fought a battle for recognition’;

Striveverb

to exert much effort or energy;

‘straining our ears to hear’;

Strugglenoun

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

‘the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph’; ‘police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs’;

Striveverb

make great efforts to achieve or obtain something

‘national movements were striving for independence’; ‘we must strive to secure steady growth’;

Strugglenoun

strenuous effort;

‘the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her’;

Striveverb

struggle or fight vigorously

‘scholars must strive against bias’;

Struggleverb

make a strenuous or labored effort;

‘She struggled for years to survive without welfare’; ‘He fought for breath’;

Struggleverb

to exert strenuous effort against opposition;

‘he struggled to get free from the rope’;

Struggleverb

climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

Struggleverb

be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight;

‘the tribesmen fought each other’; ‘Siblings are always fighting’;