Struggle /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Struggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Struggling

1. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
2. 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.

3. 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.

1. A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
2. Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
3. Contest; contention; strife.

   An honest might look upon the struggle with indifference.