Definition of struggle

• v. i. - To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
• v. i. - 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.
• v. i. - To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
• n. - A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
• n. - Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
• n. - Contest; contention; strife.