Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STRUG'GLE
STRUG'GLE, n.
- Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avoid an evil; properly, a violent effort with contortions of the body.
- Contest; contention; strife. An honest man might look upon the struggle with indifference. – Addison.
- Agony; contortions of extreme distress.
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