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verb-intransitive. To exert much effort or energy; endeavor.

verb-intransitive. To struggle or fight forcefully; contend: strive against injustice.

v. To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

v. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.

n. An effort; a striving.

n. strife; contention

verb-intransitive. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

verb-intransitive. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed.

verb-intransitive. To vie; to compete; to be a rival.

n. An effort; a striving.

n. Strife; contention.

To make strenuous effort; endeavor earnestly; labor hard; do one's endeavor; try earnestly and persistently: followed by an infinitive: as, he strove hard to win the prize; to strive to excel; to strive to pay one's way.

To contend; straggle; battle; fight: followed by with, against, or for: as, to strive against fate; to strive for the truth.

To vie; contend for preëminence: with with.

To quarrel or contend with one another; be at variance one with another, or come to be so; be in contention, dispute, or altercation.

To oppose by contrariety of qualities: with with.

Synonyms Undertake, Endeavor, etc.(see attempt); seek, aim, toil.

To compete, contest.

To dispute, wrangle.

n. A striving; an effort; a strife.

v. attempt by employing effort

v. to exert much effort or energy

""Full unity, for which the Lord prayed and for which all His disciples must tirelessly strive, is linked to the very life and mission of the Church in the world", he said."

strived    striven    strives    striving    strove   

contend    quarrel   

striven    strove   

contend    aim    endeavor    struggle    vie    contest    compete    effort    striving    strife   

Clive    Dr    Dr.    alive    arrive    clyve    connive    contrive    deprive    derive   

endeavor    toil    aspiration    endeavour    crave    vigil    yearn    longing    turmoil    urge