noun contest; contention; strife.
2. struggle ·noun a violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
3. struggle ·vi to strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
4. struggle ·noun great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
5. struggle ·vi to labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
6. 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.