This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

verb-intransitive. To exert muscular energy, as against a material force or mass: struggled with the heavy load.

verb-intransitive. To be strenuously engaged with a problem, task, or undertaking: struggled with his math homework.

verb-intransitive. To make a strenuous effort; strive: struggled to be polite.

verb-intransitive. To contend or compete: "Right and wrong ... will ever continue to struggle” ( Abraham Lincoln).

verb-intransitive. To progress with difficulty: struggled through the novel.

v. To move or place (something) with an effort: struggled the heavy desk into the elevator.

n. The act of struggling.

n. Strenuous effort; striving.

n. Combat; strife: armed struggle.

n. strife, contention, great effort

v. to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.

verb-intransitive. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

verb-intransitive. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly.

verb-intransitive. To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

n. A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

n. Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.

n. Contest; contention; strife.

To put forth violent effort, as in an emergency or as a result of intense excitation; act or strive strenuously against some antagonistic force or influence; be engaged in an earnest effort or conflict; labor or contend urgently, as for some object: used chiefly of persons, but also, figuratively, of things.

Synonyms Strive, etc. (see attempt); toil.

n. A violent effort; a strenuous or straining exertion; a strenuous endeavor to accomplish, avoid, or escape something; a contest with some opposing force: as, a struggle to get free; the struggle of death; a struggle with poverty.

n. Synonyms Endeavor. Effort, Exertion, Pains, Labor. Struggle. See strife. The above are in the order of strength.

v. make a strenuous or labored effort

n. an energetic attempt to achieve something

n. an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

n. strenuous effort

v. climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

v. to exert strenuous effort against opposition

v. be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

"But while this security will become complete under the régime of socialism, which will assure to every man who works the material means of life, this will not exclude the intellectual forms of the struggle for existence which M. Tchisch recently said should be interpreted not only in the sense of a _struggle for life_, but also in the sense of a _struggle for the enrichment of life_. ["

struggled    struggles    struggling   

climb    strive    endeavor    endeavour   

endeavor    effort   

fight    join battle    get back    fistfight    tussle    war    bear down    wrestle    joust    wage   

labor    contend    strive    endeavor    contest    effort    difficulty    agony    distress    contention   

juggle    smuggle    snuggle   

conflict    effort    contest    strife    passion    movement    misery    affair    tragedy    adventure