struggle

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Actually, the only reason for my struggle is my own fault, my own sinful flesh, for the flesh is always lazy, weak, and constantly ignores my need for the Word of God and prayer.

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  1. intransitive verb To exert muscular energy, as against a material force or mass: struggled with the heavy load.
  2. intransitive verb To be strenuously engaged with a problem, task, or undertaking: struggled with his math homework.
  3. intransitive verb To make a strenuous effort; strive: struggled to be polite.
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  • Obtaining funding for our struggle will be a difficult and perilous task. —  Acquiring Funds
  • I don't believe the struggle is about Muslims, or that Israel wants to remove all Muslims from the land.
  • The new term for these color-blind children of the struggle is the "Joshua generation." —  news.newamericamedia.org
  • Just one of the obstacles for players to overcome in this struggle is a crystal tortoise which can freeze players in a block of solid ice for ten minutes. —  IGN PC
  • If you're British Asian, the struggle is all the harder. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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conflict ·  effort ·  contest ·  strife ·  passion ·  movement ·  misery ·  affair ·  tragedy ·  adventure ·  violence ·  existence

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struggle:   struggles ·  struggled ·  struggling
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English struglen.

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  1. Early modern English also stroggell, strogell; from Middle English struglen, stroglen, strogelen; perhaps a weakened form of strokelen, which may be a variant of *stroukelen, the supposed Middle English orig. of English stroll, from Middle Dutch struyckelen, D. struikelen = Low German strükeln = Middle High German strūcheln, German straucheln, stumble: see stroll.
  2. from struggle, v.
 

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