·noun Contest; contention; strife.
II. Struggle ·noun A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
III. Struggle ·vi To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
IV. Struggle ·noun Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an Evil.
V. Struggle ·vi To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
VI. Struggle ·vi 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.