struggle

An effortful attempt to escape something dangerous, usually out of fear for one's life or health.

• The most striking detail was the absence of any sign of struggle. It looked as though the woman had made no attempt to fight back, evident from the lack of bruises/wounds on her body. It was probable that she had not expected the attack.

Strife, contention, great effort.figuratively

• The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked n
• R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelentin

To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.intransitive

• During the centuries, the people of Ireland struggled constantly to assert their right to govern themselves.

To have difficulty with something.intransitive

• One of the doctor’s patients struggled with depression.

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

• She struggled to escape from her assailant's grasp.