strive

Verb
Synonyms: endeavorendeavourreachstrain

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

  1. attempt by employing effort“we endeavor to make our customers happy”Synonyms: endeavorendeavour
  2. to exert much effort or energy“straining our ears to hear”Synonyms: reachstrain
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Strive \Strive\, n.

1.An effort; a striving. [R.] --Chapman. [1913 Webster]

2.Strife; contention. [Obs.] --Wyclif (luke xxi. 9). [1913 Webster]

Strive \Strive\, v. i. [imp. Strove; p. p. Striven(Rarely, Strove); p. pr. & vb. n. Striving.] [OF. estriver; of Teutonic origin, and akin to G. streben, D. streven, Dan. straebe, Sw. str[aum]fva. Cf. Strife.]

1.To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. [1913 Webster]

Was for this his ambition strove To equal Caesar first, and after, Jove?— Cowley.[1913 Webster]

2.To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

My Spirit shall not always strive with man.— Gen. vi. 3.[1913 Webster]
Why dost thou strive against him?— Job xxxiii. 13.[1913 Webster]
Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.— Denham.[1913 Webster]

3.To vie; to compete; to be a rival. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

[Not] that sweet grove Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this paradise Of Eden strive.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

Syn: To contend; vie; struggle; endeavor; aim. [1913 Webster]

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