1. (v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

2. (v. i.) 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.

3. (v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

4. (n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

5. (n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.

6. (n.) Contest; contention; strife.

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