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struggles

struggles is the plural of struggle.

struggles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of struggle.

Meaning of struggle

Noun

struggle (plural struggles)

  1. A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
  2. (figuratively) Strife, contention, great effort.
    • The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked night and day to supplement it.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

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Phrases with struggles

Questions about struggles

What is struggles the plural of?
Struggles is the plural of struggle.

Words near struggles in the dictionary

  1. struggleful
  2. struggleism
  3. struggleless
  4. struggler
  5. strugglers
  6. struggles
  7. strugglesome
  8. strugglest
  9. struggleth
  10. strugglin'
  11. struggling

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