Definitions for struggling

Overview of verb struggle

The verb struggle has 4 senses? (first 4 from tagged texts)

1. (13) fight, struggle

(make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath")

2. (7) struggle

(to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope")

3. (3) clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter

(climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling)

4. (2) contend, fight, struggle

(be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country")

Overview of adj struggling

The adj struggling has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (3) struggling

(engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists")