Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Preterit of strive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • imp. of strive.

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  • verb Simple past of strive.

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Examples

  • Saturday he strove from the outset to impose his superiority.

    Philippe Gilbert wins Giro di Lombardia again 2010

  • Some shook with superstitious dread; others, driven to atheistical despair, with horrible execrations, again strove to force a passage through the doors.

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • While Edwin strove to guess who could be the inventor of so dire a falsehood against the truest of Scots, he awakened an alarm in Wallace for Bruce, which could not be excited for himself, by suggesting that perhaps some intimation had been given to the most ambitious of the abthanes, respecting the arrival of their rightful prince.

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • WHEN the first violence of this paroxysm of sorrow abated, Camilla again strove to pray, and found that nothing so much stilled her.

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most.

    Moll Flanders 2003

  • We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most.

    The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923

  • We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most.

    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1696

  • The Knights of the Sword strove for independence and tried to establish themselves in Esthonia.

    The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 1907

  • The mate made no attempt to conceal his opinion of his superior's peril, and in gloomy terms strove to put the full horror of his position before him.

    Many Cargoes 1903

  • Now wrestlers in the Olympian games were naked, and anointed with oil to make them sleek and glibbery, so to afford no holdfast to such as strove with them.

    Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

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