Struggle

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.

To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.

Contest; contention; strife.

an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph" - Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"

strenuous effort; "the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her"