STRUGGLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does struggling mean? 

• STRUGGLING (adjective)
  The adjective STRUGGLING has 1 sense:

1. engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity

  Familiarity information: STRUGGLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRUGGLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity

Context example:

struggling artists

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

 Context examples 

Now, it was on those stairs that young Mr. Cunningham stood and saw the two men struggling just where we are.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was tempted to cease struggling with him—to rush down the torrent of his will into the gulf of his existence, and there lose my own.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Keep near the shore. It isn't safe in the middle." Jo heard, but Amy was struggling to her feet and did not catch a word.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The man had gained his feet and was struggling to escape the restraining arms that were laid on him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“My place is by the flag,” cried Alleyne, vainly struggling to break from the other's hold.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

During all this time he was evidently struggling for composure.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Here’s Rod,” said my mother at last, struggling down on to the ground again.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw Maud, my Maud, straining and struggling and crushed in the embrace of Wolf Larsen’s arms.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She turned on him, struggling for speech but too frantic to word the passion that burned in her.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was struggling for the appearance of composure, and would not open his lips till he believed himself to have attained it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)