To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            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.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                                                     
                        
                        
                            A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition" 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs" 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her" 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath" 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope" 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"