Strive

Definition of Strive

v. i.	1.	To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. [imp. Strove ; p. p. Striven (Rarely, Strove); p. pr. & vb. n. Striving.] Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove? - Cowley.
	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. My Spirit shall not always strive with man. - Gen. vi. 3. Why dost thou strive against him? - Job xxxiii. 13. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. - Denham.
	3.	To vie; to compete; to be a rival. [Not] that sweet grove Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this paradise Of Eden strive. - Milton.
n.	1.	An effort; a striving.
	2.	Strife; contention.

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