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STRUGGLING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity
Example:
struggling artists
Classified under:
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb struggle
Context examples:
Some blind reasons that I had for not returning home—reasons then struggling within me, vainly, for more distinct expression—kept me on my pilgrimage.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He took all manner of risks, resolutely thrusting his little weazened face into the frost and struggling on from dim dawn to dark.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Come, said Silver, struggling with his ashen lips to get the word out; this won't do.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I was struggling and screaming when Gennaro entered and attacked him.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Across the world, people are struggling to survive in the same areas as endangered animals, and often trouble surfaces in areas we aren't anticipating.
(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)
She looked at him on every side and saw that something was moving and struggling in his gorged belly.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
If you have been struggling to end a dependence on a drug or cigarettes, you may now successfully find help.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
‘You are mad, Elise!’ he shouted, struggling to break away from her. ‘You will be the ruin of us.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After a time, the ptarmigan ceased her struggling.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A voice, Here he is, sir! and an inoffensive little person in spectacles, struggling violently, was held up among a group of students.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
