Struggle

Russian Meaning

борьба

напряжение

усилие

бороться

биться

отбиваться

делать усилия

стараться изо всех сил

пробиваться

English Meaning

  1. To exert muscular energy, as against a material force or mass: struggled with the heavy load.
  2. To be strenuously engaged with a problem, task, or undertaking: struggled with his math homework.
  3. To make a strenuous effort; strive: struggled to be polite.
  4. To contend or compete: "Right and wrong ... will ever continue to struggle” ( Abraham Lincoln).
  5. To progress with difficulty: struggled through the novel.
  6. To move or place (something) with an effort: struggled the heavy desk into the elevator.
  7. The act of struggling.
  8. Strenuous effort; striving.
  9. Combat; strife: armed struggle.