Definition of struggling

"struggling" in the verb sense

1. fight, struggle

make a strenuous or labored effort

"She struggled for years to survive without welfare"

"He fought for breath"

2. struggle

to exert strenuous effort against opposition

"he struggled to get free from the rope"

3. clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter

climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

4. contend, fight, struggle

be engaged in a fight carry on a fight

"the tribesmen fought each other"

"Siblings are always fighting"

"Militant groups are contending for control of the country"

"struggling" in the adjective sense

1. struggling

engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity

"a financially struggling theater"

"struggling artists"

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Quotations for struggling

The lilies faintly to the roses yield.
As on thy lovely cheek, they struggling vie. [ Hoffman ]

The fish by struggling in the net, hampers itself the more. [ Proverb ]

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue. [ William Shakespeare ]

A brave spirit struggling with adversity is a spectacle for the gods. [ Seneca ]

Much lies among us convulsively, nay, desperately, struggling to be born. [ Carlyle ]

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. [ Wendell Phillips ]

No; creation, one would think, cannot be easy; your Jove has severe pains, and fire flames, in the head out of which an armed Pallas is struggling. [ Carlyle ]

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom - from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

After the fever of life - after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding - after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death - at length the white throne of God - at length the beatific vision. [ Newman ]

struggling in Scrabble®

The word struggling is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters struggling:

STRUGGLING
(126)
STRUGGLING
(126)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (9 words)

gusting, lugging, lusting, rugging, rulings, rusting, surging, tugging, urgings

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word struggling

STRUGGLING
(126)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In struggling

STRUGGLING
(126)
STRUGGLING
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LUGGING
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STRUGGLING
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struggling in Words With Friends™

The word struggling is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 19

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters struggling:

STRUGGLING
(261)
STRUGGLING
(261)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (9 words)

gusting, lugging, lusting, rugging, rulings, rusting, surging, tugging, urgings

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word struggling

STRUGGLING
(261)
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STRUGGLING
(138)
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(88)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In struggling

STRUGGLING
(261)
STRUGGLING
(261)
STRUGGLING
(138)
STRUGGLING
(138)
LUGGING
(113 = 78 + 35)
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Words within the letters of struggling

2 letter words in struggling (6 words)

7 letter words in struggling (9 words)

8 letter words in struggling (4 words)

10 letter words in struggling (1 word)

struggling + 1 blank (1 word)

struggling + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence struggling

Words that start with struggling (3 words)

Words with struggling in them (1 word)

Words that end with struggling (1 word)

Word Growth involving struggling

Shorter words in struggling

in

rug

Longer words containing struggling

strugglingly

strugglings