to strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.-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.-to labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.-a violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.-great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.-contest; contention; strife.