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(str?g'?l)
v., -gled, -gling, -gles. v.intr.To exert muscular energy, as against a material force or mass: struggled with the heavy load.To be strenuously engaged with a problem, task, or undertaking: struggled with his math homework.To make a strenuous effort; strive: struggled to be polite.To contend or compete: "Right and wrong ... will ever continue to struggle" (Abraham Lincoln).To progress with difficulty: struggled through the novel.
v.tr.
To move or place (something) with an effort: struggled the heavy desk into the elevator.
n.The act of struggling.Strenuous effort; striving.Combat; strife: armed struggle.
[Middle English struglen.]
struggler strug'gler n.
strugglingly strug'gling·ly adv.
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