struggling

strug·gle  (strgl)

v. strug·gled, strug·gling, strug·gles

v.intr.

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.

v.tr.

To move or place (something) with an effort: struggled the heavy desk into the elevator.

n.

1. The act of struggling.

2. Strenuous effort; striving.

3. Combat; strife: armed struggle.

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[Middle English struglen.]

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struggler n.

struggling·ly adv.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

struggling - engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists" troubled - characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers"

Translations

struggling [ˈstrʌglɪŋ] ADJ [artist, writer, actor] → que lucha por abrirse camino; [business, team] → en apuros

struggling

adj artist, musician, actor → am Hungertuch nagend attr

struggling [ˈstrʌglɪŋ] adj (artist, actor) → che lotta per affermarsi

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struggling [ˈstrʌglɪŋ] adj (artist, actor) → che lotta per affermarsi