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    [Verb]  | "strug*gle" | \ ˈstrə-gəl \


    1: to make strenuous or forceful efforts in the face of difficulties or opposition —often followed by to + a verb

    2: to proceed with difficulty or with great effort

    3: to try to move something with difficulty


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English struglen;

    [Noun]  | "struggle" 


    1: contest, strife

    2: a forceful effort or exertion : an act of strongly motivated striving

    3: tussle


    Origin: 1560 ;

    [Phrasal verb]  | "struggle on" 


    1: to continue doing something that is difficult or tiring

    [Verb]  | "struggles" 


    1: to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually;


      * e.g., " ... each week I would struggle through my piano lesson, keenly aware that I wasn't getting any better "



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    2: to devote serious and sustained effort;


      * e.g., " ... the financially strapped couple struggled to make ends meet "



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    [Verb]  | "struggle" 


    1: to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually;


      * e.g., " ... each week I would struggle through my piano lesson, keenly aware that I wasn't getting any better "



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    2: to devote serious and sustained effort;


      * e.g., " ... the financially strapped couple struggled to make ends meet "



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    [Noun]  | "struggles" 


    1: a forceful effort to reach a goal or objective;


      * e.g., " ... a performer's long struggle to achieve success "



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    2: a physical dispute between opposing individuals or groups;


      * e.g., " ... there was a struggle between the armed robber and the shopkeeper, and the gun went off "



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    3: an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another;


      * e.g., " ... her staunchest supporters in her struggle for the office "



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    [Noun]  | "struggle" 


    1: a forceful effort to reach a goal or objective;


      * e.g., " ... a performer's long struggle to achieve success "



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    2: a physical dispute between opposing individuals or groups;


      * e.g., " ... there was a struggle between the armed robber and the shopkeeper, and the gun went off "



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    3: an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another;


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     [ "struggles" ]

    1: Obvious complications, problems, troubles, or difficulty for a person, place or thing

      * e.g.,  ... Lindsay Lohan had constant struggles with her teeth until she hit up the dentist. 

     [ "struggles" ]

    1: Where a person or object is not capable of fulfilling a designated role or task.

      * e.g.,  ... "That new guys is hopless, struggles very hard!!" 

     [ "struggles" ]

    1: a state in which one is too drunk to function, but is attempting to so something, probably productive. Also, a general feeling of being unable to do anything. Expressed as a hypothetical place.

      * e.g.,  ... I'm really in struggles right now. 

     [ "struggles" ]

    1: adj.

      * e.g.,  ... Jennie: Jordan's girlfriend is so mean to him, he should dump her. 


     [ "struggles" ]

    2: Someone who has a lot of issues or problems. Often these issues interfere with the person's ability to behave normally.

      * e.g.,  ... Sarah: What's wrong with her? 

     [ "struggles" ]

    1: it sucks

      * e.g.,  ... Man, that struggles. 

     [ "struggles" ]

    1: The process of man asking shelby to go to prom with him

      * e.g.,  ... After man decided to ask shelby to prom, I told him that was in the stuggles. 


     [ "struggles" ]

    2: see: strugglin, struggs

     [ "struggle" ]

    1: my life

      * e.g.,  ... my life is such a struggle 

     [ "the struggle" ]

    1: "The Struggle" refers to the difficulty and danger that is faced, every day, by those of lower socio-economic class living in areas such as housing projects and ghettos. It is a term often used to in Hip-Hop music, particularly Gangsta Rap, as a means of enlightening the listener to the difficulty of day to day life for many African-Americans living in such localities.

      * e.g.,  ... Pour a forty on the kerb, G. For the homies who died in "the struggle". 

     [ "on the struggle" ]

    1: when you're having a difficult time.

      * e.g.,  ... it's appropiate in a variety of context, like, when you're having a bad day,when you're running late for work, when you're broke, when you've just been punched in the face. you're on the struggle. 

     [ "the struggle" ]

    1: Anybody on the grind. Anybody who is going through physical and emotional struggles on a daily basis. In the ghetto, these may include poverty, drugs, crime. Elsewhere, this may include family breakup, constant relocating, and drugs.

      * e.g.,  ... ghetto struggle: Damn man we livin the struggle here in da projects 

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