OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 13824

struggle

/ˈstrʌɡəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
batallar • bregar • esforzarse con denuedo • luchar • pugnar
To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.
Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why i…
costarle • padecer • pasarlas moradas • pasarlas negras • renquear • sufrir • verse y desearse • vérselas y deseárselas
To have difficulty with something.
One of the doctor’s patients struggled with depression.
Then our first effort must be to identify the actual words. Only after recognizing them individually can we begin to try to understand them, to struggle with perceiving what they m…