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Definition: Struggling |
StrugglingAdjective1. Engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "struggling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of struggling, foretells that you will encounter serious difficulties, but if you gain the victory in your struggle, you will also surmount present obstacles. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Crosswords: Struggling |
| English words defined with "struggling": adversity, agonistic ♦ Colluctancy, Colluctation, contending ♦ Eluctation ♦ hardship ♦ Maieutics ♦ squirm, strained ♦ twist ♦ worm, wrestle, wriggle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "struggling": Asparagus ♦ Barber ♦ Cooling Board ♦ Gasoline ♦ Judgment Day ♦ King ♦ Lake, Leaping ♦ Oblivion ♦ Sparrowgrass. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "struggling": Struggle. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's no use struggling against the thing. (My Man Godfrey; writing credit: Eric Hatch; Morrie Ryskind) From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last. (Highlander; writing credit: Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson.) | |
Lyrics | Now look at me baby struggling to do everything right (BRILLIANT DISGUISE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) Struggling 2 see a new something that I fantasize (Send It On; performing artist: D'Angelo) I keep struggling but I'm trying my best (The Best Man I Can Be; performing artist: Ginuwine) Now I'm struggling to survive, (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Clever | Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but he she can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Struggling Author (1911) Girls Struggling for a Sofa (1898) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Swell Struggling With The Cig'rette Poisoner. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Physician Struggling With Death For Life / Ivo Saliger. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Between them they dragged their struggling victim to the door... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Struggling with an Italian porter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Native woman of Keel, a struggling villge of Achill Island, West coast of Ireland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | March 8, International Women's Day : hail to the struggling and toiling women of the world. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Dickens | Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. |
Dionysius and Halicarnassus | A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread. |
President Abraham Lincoln | I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it. |
Publius Cornelius Tacitus | Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. |
| We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. | |
Seneca | The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. |
Wendell Phillips | The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. |
William Feather | Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required--not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | He went struggling along like a portmanteau. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Now and then, struggling against his fatigue, he made an effort again to arouse his intellect. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The fellows were struggling and groaning and their legs were rubbing and kicking and stamping. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Al came back with Grampa struggling and limping by his side. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The current service systems in many states are struggling to adjust to the increasing number of children diagnosed with autism. (references) | |
Many home care programs are based in struggling rural hospitals and lack the full range of services needed by people with dementia. (references) | ||
Business | The GOP is still struggling to develop. (references) | |
The ones in the middle are really struggling. (references) | ||
While books are struggling in finding the way, music is off to a smoother start. (references) | ||
Economic History | Costa Rica | Costa Rica's ports are struggling to keep pace with growing trade. (references) |
Botswana | Technology services are struggling to keep up with increasing demand. (references) | |
Yemen | At unification, both the YAR and the PDRY were struggling underdeveloped economies. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ghana | According to a police spokesman, the suspect was killed instantly when the sergeant's gun went off accidentally while he was struggling with the suspect. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | When a man isn't working and struggling to provide for his family he does not have the money to start a business. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Whilst other portions of mankind are laboring under the distresses of war or struggling with adversity in other forms, the United States are in the tranquil enjoyment of prosperous and honorable peace. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We have already found a high degree of personal liberty, and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Struggling parents today worry how they will provide their children the advantages that their parents gave them. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | As we encourage long-term growth, we will not forget the men and women who are struggling today. |
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| "Struggling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.95% of the time. "Struggling" is used about 1,634 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 93.95% | 1,535 | 5,333 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.83% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.49% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,634 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "struggling": once-struggling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "struggling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | борещ се. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 奋斗 (struggle, Struggled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | luttant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | strampelnd (strugglingly), ringend, kämpfend (battling, crusading, fighting, militantly, tussling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | που μάχεται, που μοχθεί, που αγωνίζεται. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | meronta-ronta (keep struggling to get free). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 苦吟 (laborious composition, struggling to compose a poem), 争覇 (contending for victory, struggling for supremacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くぎ" (laborious composition, struggling to compose a poem), そうは (contending for victory, curettage, runningthe whole distance, struggling for supremacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 투. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | spretal, kestal (spin, struggle, turn, turn as rope, twisting, wrestle; spinning, wrestling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ugglingstray zbuciumat (agitated, anxious, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled), zbucium (agitation, anxiety, coil, fidget, struggle, trouble, uneasiness, worriment). (various references) бороться (antagonize, conflict, contend, cope, fight, grapple, militate, oppugn, strive, struggle, struggled, struggles, tussle, wrestle). (various references) sống chật vật, vật lộn, đấu tranh (fighting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Struggling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: struggeling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "struggling" (pronounced stru"guling or stru"gling) |
| 6 | -u" g u l i ng | juggling. |
| 5 | -g u l i ng | boggling, bugling, bungling, commingling, dangling, giggling, gurgling, haggling, intermingling, jiggling, mangling, mingling, singling, strangling, tingling, waggling, wiggling, wrangling. |
| 4 | -u l i ng | ambling, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, barreling, battling, belittling, bicycling, bottling, bristling, bubbling, bumbling, bundling, bustling, cackling, canceling, cancelling, channeling, chortling, circling, coddling, counseling, cradling, crippling, crumbling, cycling, dabbling, dazzling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, dwindling, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, entitling, equaling, fizzling, fondling, fumbling, funneling, gambling, gobbling, groveling, grueling, grumbling, guzzling, hassling, hobbling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, jostling, labeling, leveling, marshaling, meddling, middling, mislabeling, modeling, mottling, muddling, mumbling, muscling, nibbling, paddling, paneling, parceling, pedaling, peddling, piddling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, raveling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, remodeling, resembling, reshuffling, reveling, rippling, rivaling, ruffling, rumbling, saddling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, settling, shriveling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, sizzling, spiraling, spiralling, squabbling, stapling, stenciling, stumbling, swiveling, tabling, throttling, tinkling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, traveling, travelling, trembling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twinkling, unraveling, unsettling, warbling, wobbling, wrinkling, yodeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, beguiling, Belling, billing, blackmailing, boiling, Bolling, bowling, brawling, broiling, buckling, burgling, burling, cajoling, calling, Carling, ceiling, chilling, chronicling, chuckling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, crawling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, drilling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, earthling, emailing, enrolling, entailing, entangling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, galling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, growling, hailing, handling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, holing, howling, hurling, hurtling, inhaling, inkling, installing, instilling, jailing, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, Marling, Melling, milling, mishandling, misspelling, mothballing, mulling, nailing, needling, nestling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, peeling, pickling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, quelling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, reeling, regaling, rekindling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruling, rustling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shuffling, sibling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squealing, stalling, starling, startling, stealing, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strickling, stripling, strolling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, Tilling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, trailing, trampling, trickling, trifling, trilling, trolling, twiddling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, wailing, walling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiling, willing, wrestling, yearling, yelling. |
| 5 | -u" g l i ng | smuggling. |
| 4 | -g l i ng | angling, burgling, tangling, toggling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-g-i-l-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: gurgling, lustring, rustling, slugging. | |
-3 letters: gurging, gusting, lugging, lusting, lutings, rugging, rulings, rusting, surging, tugging. | |
-4 letters: glints, gluing, grunts, guilts, insult, luging, lungis, luring, luting, ruling, rutins, sluing, string, strung, sunlit, truing, ungirt, unrigs, urging. | |
-5 letters: gilts, girls, girns, girts, glint, glugs, gluts, grigs, grins, grist, grits, grunt, guilt, iglus, lings, lints, lungi, lungs. | |
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