struggling

/หˆstษนสŒษกlษชล‹/

IPA: /S T R AH1 G AH0 L IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

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

    โ€œDuring the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.โ€

  2. 2

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

    โ€œShe struggled to escape from her assailant's grasp.โ€

noun
  1. 1

    The act of one who struggles.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/struggle, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/struggling