struggle (n.)
- action
- affray
- aim
- altercation
- argument
- assay
- attempt
- battle
- bickering
- blunder
- box
- brawl
- broil
- brush
- buffet
- bullfight
- careen
- career
- clash
- close
- cockfight
- combat
- competition
- conflict
- contention
- contentiousness
- contest
- contestation
- controversy
- debate
- determination
- disputation
- dispute
- dogfight
- drudgery
- duel
- effort
- embroilment
- encounter
- endeavor
- enmity
- essay
- exertion
- falter
- fence
- feud
- fight
- fighting
- flounce
- flounder
- fray
- grapple
- hassle
- hostility
- jostle
- joust
- labor
- litigation
- logomachy
- lurch
- match
- offer
- pitch
- plunge
- polemic
- quarrel
- quarrelsomeness
- reel
- resolution
- resolve
- riot
- rock
- roll
- rumble
- scramble
- scrimmage
- scuffle
- seek
- skirmish
- spar
- squirm
- stagger
- strain
- strife
- striving
- study
- stumble
- sway
- sweat
- swing
- tauromachy
- tilt
- toil
- toss
- totter
- tourney
- travail
- trial
- try
- tug-of-war
- tumble
- tussle
- twist
- undertaking
- vie
- wallop
- wallow
- war
- warfare
- welter
- wiggle
- words
- work
- worm
- wrangling
- wrestle
- wriggle
struggle (v.)
- action
- agonize
- aim
- assay
- attempt
- battle
- blunder
- box
- brawl
- broil
- brush
- buffet
- careen
- career
- clash
- close
- collide
- combat
- compete
- conflict
- contend
- contest
- debate
- dispute
- dogfight
- duel
- encounter
- endeavor
- essay
- falter
- fence
- feud
- fight
- flounce
- flounder
- fray
- grapple
- hassle
- jostle
- joust
- labor
- lurch
- match
- offer
- pitch
- plunge
- quarrel
- reel
- resolve
- riot
- rock
- roll
- rumble
- scramble
- scrimmage
- scuffle
- seek
- seethe
- skirmish
- spar
- squirm
- stagger
- strain
- strive
- study
- stumble
- sway
- sweat
- swing
- tilt
- toil
- toss
- totter
- tourney
- travail
- try
- tumble
- tussle
- twist
- undertake
- vie
- wallop
- wallow
- war
- welter
- wiggle
- words
- work
- worm
- wrestle
- wriggle
- writhe
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
The perpetual struggle for room and food.—
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.