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What is the verb for struggle?

What's the verb for struggle? Here's the word you're looking for.

struggle
  1. To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
  2. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I would struggle to learn Japanese for the best part of five years until it finally clicked.”
      “Jesse and Chester would struggle with each other over a misunderstanding about what the tattoos on their back read.”
      “The Allies would struggle against the Axis powers over several years during the Second World War.”
struggling
struggles
struggleth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of struggle
strugglest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of struggle
struggled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of struggle
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Holmes though was not in the mood for praise and walked at a pace that I struggled to maintain.”
      “She struggled through divorce, life as a single parent, abusive relationships and another rocky marriage.”
      “All the other competitors were paired up in boats, while I struggled against a howling head wind, wading the brackish water from the bank.”
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