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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
battling, contending, contestant, contesting, disputant, drudging, fighting, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, laboring, pegging, plodding, plugging, quarrelsome, slaving, slogging, straining, striving, sweating, toiling, warlike, warring, working
Dictionary Results for struggling:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
struggling
    adj 1: engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or
           obscurity; "a financially struggling theater";
           "struggling artists"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Struggle \Strug"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Struggled; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Struggling.] [OE. strogelen; cf. Icel. strj?ka to
   stroke, to beat, to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike,
   Dan. stryge, G. straucheln to stumble. Cf. Stroll.]
   1. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with
      contortions of the body.
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   2. 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.
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            The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
            have consecrated it [Gettysburg] far above our power
            to add or detract.                    --Lincoln.
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   3. To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in
      any kind of difficulty or distress.
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            'T is wisdom to beware,
            And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   Syn: To strive; contend; labor; endeavor.
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