struggle

1. struggle (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.

2. struggle (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Strife, contention, great effort.

Example: The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked night and day to supplement it.

3. struggle (verb) — sense 3

Definition: To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.

Example: During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.

4. struggle (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To have difficulty with something.

Example: One of the doctor’s patients struggled with depression.

5. struggle (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

Example: She struggled to escape from her assailant's grasp.