Struggle

1. To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
2. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
3. A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
4. 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.
5. Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
6. Contest; contention; strife.