STRIVE
\stɹˈa͡ɪv], \stɹˈaɪv], \s_t_ɹ_ˈaɪ_v]\
Sort: Oldest first
-
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.
-
To vie; to compete; to be a rival.
-
An effort; a striving.
By Oddity Software
-
To make efforts; labor hard or earnestly; as, to strive for success; struggle in opposition; to compete.
-
Strove.
-
Striving.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
-
To make efforts: to endeavor earnestly: to labor hard: to struggle: to contend: to aim:-pa.t. strove; pa.p. striven.
-
STRIVER.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
Word of the day
sir richard blackmore
- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.