struggle

struggle is a Verb

Definition:

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

[2] To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one`s life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it [Gettysburg] far above our power to add or detract. Lincoln.

[3] To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress. `T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. Dryden.