struggle

v., -gled, -gling, -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.

[Middle English struglen.]

struggler strug'gler n.
strugglingly strug'gling·ly adv.

verb

To strive in opposition: battle, combat, contend, duel, fight, tilt, war, wrestle. See conflict/cooperation.

noun

1. The use of energy to do something: effort, endeavor, exertion, pain (used in plural), strain¹, striving, trouble, while. Informal elbow grease. See work/play.
2. A vying with others for victory or supremacy: battle, competition, contest, corrivalry, race, rivalry, strife, striving, tug of war, war, warfare. See conflict/cooperation.
3. A state of open, prolonged fighting: belligerency, conflict, confrontation, hostility (used in plural), strife, war, warfare. See conflict/cooperation.

n

Definition: hard try; fight to win
Antonyms: giving in

v

Definition: fight, wrestle
Antonyms: surrender, yield

v

Definition: labor, work
Antonyms: idle, laze, rest

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• Artist: Woody Guthrie
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1976
• Total Time: 33:46
• Genre: Folk

Review

This album was originally released by Moses Asch, founder of the Folkways label, on Asch Records in 1941 as Struggle: Documentary No. 1. It was released by him in 1976 to commemorate the bicentennial of the American Revolution with a special series of liner notes by Asch explaining the importance of Woody Guthrie's history of the working class through song. Both Guthrie's songs and the liner notes are stuff of supreme cultural importance. In the notes, Asch lays out a theory that the American Revolution has not yet been completed and there is a need for a "continuing struggle for human rights and equality." As a collection of songs, this is surely one of the best Guthrie collections, especially once it's known how important it was to him personally. In many ways, it seems as if this album was the fulfillment of a very personal vision, which starts with the songs but is only realized in their collectivity. Included here are such excellent songs as the unsettling "Hang Knot," the elliptic "Union Burying Ground," and the finely spun "Pretty Boy Floyd." These songs define Guthrie at his best, never didactic in tone but supreme in import. The album also features the Cisco Houston (Guthrie's sometime tramping companion) number "Get Along Little Doggies," as well as his vocal accompaniment on several tracks. Sonny Terry guests on "Lost John," lending his harmonica to Guthrie's tale of a chain gang escapee. Both as a historical artifact and as an amazing Guthrie album, this is required listening. ~ Brian Whitener, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Struggle Blues	Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston	Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston	(2:00)
A Dollar Down	Cisco Houston	Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston	(1:37)
Get Along Little Doggies (Lyrics)	Cisco Houston	Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston	(3:01)
Hang Knot	Woody Guthrie	Woody Guthrie	(2:13)
Waiting at the Gate (Lyrics)	Woody Guthrie	Woody Guthrie	(2:49)
The Dying Miner	Woody Guthrie	Woody Guthrie	(2:54)
Union Burying Ground (Lyrics)	Woody Guthrie	Woody Guthrie	(3:02)
Lost John (Lyrics)	Woody Guthrie	Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry	(2:50)
Buffalo Skinners (Lyrics)	Woody Guthrie	Woody Guthrie	(3:13)
Pretty Boy Floyd (Lyrics)	Woody Guthrie	Woody Guthrie	(3:03)
Ludlow Massacre (Lyrics)	Woody Guthrie	Woody Guthrie	(3:29)
1913 Massacre (Lyrics)	Woody Guthrie	Woody Guthrie	(3:35)

Credits

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (Harmonica), Woody Guthrie (Guitar), Woody Guthrie (Harmonica), Woody Guthrie (Vocals), Woody Guthrie (Main Performer), Cisco Houston (Guitar), Cisco Houston (Vocals), Cisco Houston (Performer), Mickey Hart (Digital Remastering), Moses Asch (Engineer), Moses Asch (Liner Notes), Sonny Terry (Harmonica), Sonny Terry (Performer), Matt Walters (Reissue Production Coordination), Anthony Seeger (Liner Notes), Anthony Seeger (Editing), Ronald Clyne (Cover Design)

IN BRIEF: To proceed with difficulty and effort.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. — Baron Pierre De Coubertin (1863-1937)

Quotes:

"My darling girl, Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart -- and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!" - Martin Bormann

"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." - Albert Camus

"The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle." - Harvey Keitel

"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying." - Greg LeMond

"It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits." - Greil Marcus

"As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - kæmpe, slide
v. tr. - bekæmpet
n. - kamp, anstrengelse

idioms:

• struggle on    kæmpe videre

Nederlands (Dutch)
worstelen, tegenspartelen, strijden, strijd, worsteling

Français (French)
v. intr. - se débattre contre, lutter, se battre, (fig) se battre, se démener, éprouver des difficultés, enfiler/enlever péniblement (un vêtement)
v. tr. - déplacer/placer (qch) avec difficulté
n. - (lit, fig) lutte, rixe, bagarre, mal/peine (à faire)

idioms:

• struggle on    continuer à grand peine, (fig) persévérer

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kampf
v. - kämpfen, sich quälen, sich abmühen

idioms:

• struggle on    weiterkämpfen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αγώνας, (δια)πάλη, σφοδρή αντιπαράθεση, (μτφ.) μόχθος
v. - αγωνίζομαι, παλεύω, πασχίζω

idioms:

• struggle on    εξακολουθώ να αγωνίζομαι

Italiano (Italian)
lottare, combattere, dibattersi, lotta, battaglia, combattimento

idioms:

• struggle on    resistere

Português (Portuguese)
n. - luta (f)
v. - lutar

idioms:

• struggle on    ir levando

Русский (Russian)
борьба, напряжение, бороться, биться, делать усилие, пробиваться

idioms:

• struggle on    продолжать бороться за существование, продолжать с трудом делать что-л.

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - combatir, luchar, batallar, forcejear, resistir, esforzarse
v. tr. - poner algo con mucho esfuerzo, abrirse camino con esfuerzo violento
n. - lucha, combate, contienda, esfuerzo, disputa, pelea

idioms:

• struggle on    continuar esforzándose o luchando

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kamp, strid, ansträngning
v. - kämpa, strida, streta, sprattla, släpa, kånka

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
努力, 挣扎, 奋斗, 尽力使得, 使劲移动, 斗争, 使劲

idioms:

• struggle on    挣扎下去

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 努力, 掙扎, 奮鬥
v. tr. - 盡力使得, 使勁移動
n. - 奮鬥, 努力, 鬥爭, 使勁

idioms:

• struggle on    掙扎下去

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 발버둥 치다, 열심히 노력하다, 애쓰다
v. tr. - ~을 노력하여 해내다, 밀치고 나아가다
n. - 버둥거리기, 몸부림, 맞붙어 싸우기

idioms:

• struggle on    노력으로

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - もがく, あがく, 戦う, 苦労して進む, 苦闘してやり遂げる, 奮闘する
n. - もがき, 努力, 苦闘, 戦い

idioms:

• struggle on    ～でもがく

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كفاح, نضال, نزاع, صراع (فعل) كافح, ناضل, صارع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮נאבק, התאמץ, נאבק במשימה, התחבט, התקדם במאמץ‬
v. tr. - ‮הביא במאמץ, פילס דרך בכוח‬
n. - ‮מאבק, מלחמה, מאמץ‬

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