English to Persian Dictionary Online
Definition of "struggle"

struggle

Từ điển Collocation

struggle noun

¹ fight

ADJ. great, life-and-death, titanic | bitter, desperate, fierce, heroic, violent There were the sounds of a desperate struggle. | just The UN supported what it saw as the just struggle of an oppressed people. | unequal | armed The group supported the armed struggle against the dictator. | class, internecine Marx wrote about the class struggle. | economic, ideological, leadership, political, power, revolutionary

VERB + STRUGGLE begin, put up, take up If someone snatched your bag, would you put up a struggle? They took up the struggle against racism. | be engaged/locked in, carry on, wage species engaged in a life-or-death struggle with the ever-changing environment

STRUGGLE + VERB ensue, take place | continue, go on | intensify

PREP. in a/the ~ One of the security guards was hurt in the struggle. | without a ~ She won't give up without a struggle. | ~ against the struggle against fascism | ~ between the struggle between good and evil | ~ for the long struggle for democracy | ~ over a struggle over the property | ~ with He was involved in a struggle with the police.

PHRASES a sign of a struggle The police said that there was no sign of a struggle by the murder victim. | years of struggle After 150 years of struggle against brutal colonial rule, the country won its independence.

² great effort

ADJ. desperate, great, hard, real, uphill It will be an uphill struggle to maintain exports at the current level. | long | ceaseless, constant, endless | unequal

VERB + STRUGGLE face, have We had a real struggle to get everything into the suitcase. | give up I've given up the unequal struggle to keep my house tidy.

PHRASES a bit of a struggle It was a bit of a struggle for me to get there so early.

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• an energetic attempt to achieve something; battle

  getting through the crowd was a real struggle

  he fought a battle for recognition

• an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); conflict, battle

  the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs

• strenuous effort

  the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her

v.

• make a strenuous or labored effort; fight

  She struggled for years to survive without welfare

  He fought for breath

• to exert strenuous effort against opposition

  he struggled to get free from the rope

• climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling; clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter
• be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; contend, fight

  the tribesmen fought each other

  Siblings are always fighting

  Militant groups are contending for control of the country

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

struggles|struggled|struggling
syn.: attempt battle contend endeavor fight scuffle strive try tussle